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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Tell us about when words couldn’t describe your experience — and then let’s try to find the right words | The Hot Word | Hot & Trending Words Daily Blog at Dictionary.com

Tell us about when words couldn’t describe your experience — and then let’s try to find the right words | The Hot Word | Hot & Trending Words Daily Blog at Dictionary.com

@VEllisonne on twitter writes: “When I found myself in the middle of a dangerous situation but was completely calm and alright with the whole thing.” Perhaps “imperturbation” works here

And Kathie Wallis stumped us with: “The moment when irony and coincidence bring a truth to you out of nowhere; when you realize the world is not as you were living it. As if the dimensional plane you are standing in suddenly shifts, just a bit, leaving you disoriented and the world around you is forever changed.”

The suggestions keep rolling in and we are thrilled with what we’re reading.

Liongrrrrl offered the following scenario: “I can’t figure out how to put certain facial expressions to words, like when someone says something sarcastic to another person and that person gives them a *look*, where they blink kind of long and stare at them, maybe pursing their lips or folding their arms. I can’t figure that one out.” To which one reader suggested: moue.

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