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This week’s questions (and their explanatory introductions) are inspired by this Mental Floss article about words in other languages without English equivalents.

1. Iktsuarpok is Inuit for that feeling of anticipation when you’re waiting for someone to show up at your house and you keep going outside to see if they’re there yet. Who last invoked iktsuarpok in you?
2. Georgians call it shemomedjamo when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it. When did you memorably shemomedjamo?
3. Zhaghzhagh is Persian for the chattering of teeth from the cold or from rage. When were you last so cold (or so enraged) you experienced zhaghzhagh?
4. A bilita mpash in Bantu is the opposite of a nightmare: an amazing dream. Whenever a dream question shows up in memes, half the respondents say they don’t remember their dreams, but here we go anyway. What is one bilita mpash you remember?
5. In Thailand, the feeling you get when you don’t want someone to do something for you because it would be a pain for them is greng-jai. When did you recently resist greng-jai and ask someone anyway?

Thanks for participating, and may your weekend be safe and LAGOM!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. What recently made you proudest of yourself?
2. Whom do you envy?
3. When did you most recently express wrath?
4. What do you eat when you are too slothful to prepare something or to get takeout?
5. What or whom do you lust for?

Shout-out to my undergrad Medieval literature professor, the late David Miller, for the title acronym. Thanks for participating, and have a naughty-but-safe weekend!

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1. Who needs you?
2. Who runs to you?
3. Who forgets you?
4. Who keeps you hangin’ on?
5. Who’s watching you?

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1. What do you expect to do syrup-titiously in the coming weeks?
2. What did you ketchup on this week, or ketchup with?
3. What was the occasion the last time you enjoyed dressing up?
4. What television series did you most recently watch with great relish?
5. When did someone most recently shoyu how to do something?

Thanks for participating, and mayo have a wonderful, safe weekend! There are still a lot of people blogging out there, but aioli have eyes for yours!

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1. What’s your favorite weapon in a movie?
2. What’s your favorite car in a movie?
3. What’s your favorite cat or dog in a movie?
4. Who’s your favorite sidekick in a movie?
5. What’s your favorite painting or sculpture in a movie?

Thanks for participating, and have a delicious, safe weekend!

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1. What complaints do you have about this weekend?
2. What are your grievances with yourself?
3. What are your objections to rainbows, flowers, and puppies?
4. What are your criticisms about your domicile?
5. What’s your beef with excessively negative people?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, wonderful, blissful, relaxing, happy, blessed, safe weekend!

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. It’s been said (notably by Divinyls in 1985) there’s a fine line between pleasure and pain. How has this proven true in your life?
2. Where in your life have you witnessed the fine line between genius and insanity?
3. Where do you draw the fine line between supporting someone and enabling someone?
4. Which sides of the fine lines between caution and cowardice, and between courage and foolhardiness do you tend toward?
5. Tasked with drawing a literal fine line, what is your writing utensil of choice?

Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Please copy these questions to your webspace. Answer the questions there; then leave a comment below so we’ll all know where to check out your responses. Please don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. When are you the tortoise, and when are you the hare?
2. When are you the grasshopper, and when are you the ants?
3. When were you the lion, and when were you the mouse?
4. Are you more like the town mouse or the country mouse?
5. Which fable told in your childhood has resonated with you through the years?

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1. What did you do too much of this week?
2. What did you not do enough of this week?
3. What surprised you this week?
4. What elated you this week?
5. What happened this week that’ll lead to something good next week?

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1. What item do you own more than one of, while most people own exactly one?
2. What item do you own none of, while most people own exactly one?
3. Among stuff you own, what item is most likely to be borrowed by an acquaintance?
4. What item are you most likely to borrow from an acquaintance?
5. What did you most recently purchase and not use?

Thanks for participating, and have a lovely, wonderful, safe weekend!