Something resembling a meme;

[capri0mni]

I can't call it a "meme" from the outset. That's a title it has to earn though its own merits. It does, however have Internet Meme-like qualities. These are a questions I feel like asking everyone I know, at some point or other.

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If you had to pick five words from you native language to be your "favorites," which ones would they be?

And why is each one on the list? Do you like the way it looks on the page? Or does it conjure up good memories? Do you like it for the way it sounds, or because of its dictionary definition? Or ... for some other reason?

So here is my list (not necessisarily in any ranked order):

1. Delicious: I like thinking of delicious things, of course. And I like how the word can be used to describe other pleasurable, if intangible, experiences, such as: delicious revenge, or: delicious beauty. But mostly, I love the way you have to roll your tongue around inside your mouth when you say it, as if you were eating ice cream and fudge sauce.



2. Jolly: My grandmother (father's mother) Josie would use this word for almost everything that made her happy; sitting down to dinner (sometimes at a holiday feast, but also just a family visit), for example, with the folded napkins and silverware all laid out, would elicit the response of: "Oh my, Dear! How jolly!" Or sitting by lake, with the sun reflecting off the water, would get the same assessment. "Jolly" also sounds more playful (to my ear) than "cheerful," or "happy; it's got some "jump" and "joy" mixed in, too.



3. Googolplex: This means: "The numeral one followed by a googol of zeros." A "Googol" is "Ten to the Hundreth Power" or 10¹⁰⁰ (it was also the name the inventors of the Google search engine were aiming for, but they misspelled it). So a Googolplex is: 10¹⁰¹⁰⁰. When I was small, and mother would be putting me to bed, we'd have this game of "I love you one," "I love you two," "...five," "...twenty," etc. Eventually, we'd jump up to: "I love you a googol," and: "I love you a googolplex." I will always associate the word with the image of my mother's silhouette in my bedroom doorway. Plus, it's a fun and silly-sounding word to say.



4. bed: This is the word that helped me remember the difference between lowercase "b" and lowercase "d." If you think of the as a picture of what it means, then bed gives a human plenty of room to sleep, but deb would force them to squunch up most uncomfortably.



5. Sesquipedalian: This means either: "A person who uses long words," or simply: "A long word." According to Wiktionary, it comes from the Latin for: "a foot and a half." So a "sesquipedal sesquipalian" would be a "Very short person who uses very long words." I just love that the word is so self-referential. "Monosyllabic" most definitely is not.

So, tell me: does this have the stuff of memehood?

I'm going to bed.

I love you lot a googolplex!