I adore words
And I like playing with them …Using them to say something, but not quite
Learnt while I was talking to some one the other day that there’s a term called Nandake in Japanese (That’s his status message ALL the time!)
Which essentially means describing something, without really saying it in so many words.
[Siddhartha, if you happen to visit this page and read this, please correct me if I am not as articulate as you were when you said
"Okay. Let's say you are telling me about something .. like a new bird you just saw.And you are describing it but the word 'bird' doesn't come to mind. And you'd go "you know, it's yellow, it has huge wings, it's a ... nan dake"
:-)]
Clearly, I found the idea fascinating!
So here’s a new chapter, Dedicated to the spirit of banter.
Nandake?
Repartee…
Wordplay!!
Find some stuff that you might find interesting under the category “WordPlay” . Tried to post stuff on this page , but have for the time being rested my case trying out doing that . Cheers!
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