"Overly"

:-P

Ooh pretty much all the clan specific 'super-power' abilities and other terms from the White Wolf Vampire: The Masquerade (as in Redemption and Bloodlines) used really fancy real world words

Obfuscation - Hiding
Celerity - Speed
Fortitude - Toughness
Thaumaturgy - Magic (I Guess)
exsanguination - drain the blood from
Deabolorise - same thing, I guess
Torpor - Death like deep Sleep

and a bunch of others I'm sure I'm forgetting
Aaaand I've brought this OT thread back to table top and then computer games!
Go me!

FTR, it's actually Gedankenspiel, which translates as "thought experiment". Now you know.

And then there's uxorious, which basically means being a pussy to one's wife. Seems awfully specific if you ask me, but there you go.

Whoa, yeah, never heard of that one, weird!
Actually I read it as 'unctuous' which I'd heard of but didn't know the meaning of, apparently it literally means oily or pertaining to oil but figuratively it can mean a person is kind of slimey especially if they fain earnestness

Whenever I hear unctuous, I always associate it with obsequious, which means servile or fawning. Kind of like that Snidely Whiplash kind of butler that gives everyone the willies, and is not-so-secretly planning to "service" you to an early death so he can make off with all your stuff.

In other words - it means "noob" ;P.

here's another oddly specific one:
Avuncular - to be 'Uncle-like' (only in a nice, kindly way, not like your weird uncle Pete your Mum told you to never be alone with!)

Expostulate: to express strong disagreement or disapproval.

Of course since I'm a nine year old and most people don't know the actual meaning of the word, I would use it to mean farting.

Pardon me I just expostulated...



I'll never grow up.

Speaking of immaturity, the technical term for chewing is 'mastication'
*snigger*

Thanks for the stroke....

We, on the other hand, have a translated version of schadenfreude - skadeglädje. "Skada" means injury or injure, while "glädje" means happiness or joy, so yeah, happiness from (other's) injury (or misfortune). To be overly technical, the word doesn't actually specify "other's", but is only used in that sense.

Also, you're using our "smörgåsbord" and "ombudsman".

Are muesli and sauna yours too? (the words, of COURSE the actual things themselves are!)
Fjord from somewhere up by you too, probably not actually you guys though...

Clever. My lilliputian mind can scarcely parse the quintessence of your missive. Mayhap such exigent circumstance requires a perusal of my trusty lexicon.