Címke

/ʦiːmkɛ/ (Hungarian, original meaning: label)

(n.) category of words created by the citizens of Internet-land (internet népe) to describe feeling, everyday situations that everyone knows, yet we don’t have words for them.

Hey there!
I am Eszter (with a Z - but don’t let it distract you, it is pronounced Ester).

My mother tongue is Hungarian, but I also speak English, Italian and some German.
I am fascinated by the diverse vocabulary of different languages. They showed me how colourful the human mind is, still how similar all around the globe.

They say languages are energy saving but I doubt it. There are so many everyday situations that we simply have no words for.
To fill the void my friends and I have made up some new word that we think should be used daily.

Check them out and help us to diffuse them!

Have you ever felt like you had known something but just by saying it out you became more conscious about it?

a réj

ɾeːj
régi + új = old + new

Humankind tends to preceive entities better once they are labelled.
Creating verbal connection to certain feelings and situations help you recognise them in different contexts, so you’ll be more conscious about them.
E.g. some decades ago there were only two genders. Now that new categories are being introduced non-binary people can find their identity easier.
But also, when you have a difficult time, sometimes it’s enough if someone just listens to you and you realize you found the solution by yourself. That’s because the cognitive effort to put your feeling in words requires you to clarify your thoughts.
To sum up, if you have some recurrent feelings but no words for it, you might not even realize you have it.
Réj is the moment, when by saying something out or hearing someone saying it out helps you to enlighten your inside-kept thought. So it will be something that you have already known – so it is an old (régi) tought but in a new (új) light.

Have you ever found yourself doing an awkward dance with a stranger while trying to pass by each other?

to tüppen

tʏpːɛn
tükrözni + tipegni = to reflect + toddle

Two people tüppen, when they are going to the opposite directions and their roads are crossing each other so they try to pass by each other by stepping aside, but they accidentally step to the same sid (they reflect each other) and then repeat it variable times creating toddler-like movement.

Have you ever asked someone about their weekend hoping that they ask back, so actually you can talk about yours?

a várdés

vaːɾdeːʃ
válasz + kérdés = answer + question (+twist: to vár = to wait)

A várdés is a question that you ask from someone else because you hope they’ll answer it shortly and then ask it back. Because in fact, you are the one willing to answer your own question.
It might include the disappointment when they don’t do so.
So, to explain the word chosen for this kind of questions, you already have an answer (válasz) so you ask them a question (kérdés) waiting (vár) for them to ask back.

Have you ever felt like some celebrity was so hyped by everyone for no reason that you just started hated him/her?

KK reflex

just simply keɪ-keɪ ˈriːflɛks
Közvélemény-kiegyenlítő reflex = public opinion compensating reflex

When you feel like the public perception about a certain entity (celebrity, film, political decision, etc.) doesn’t correspond to its deserved one.
KK reflex is when, in order to compensate the public perception, you modify your personal opinion so that the “geometric mean” of these “two perceptions” gives the desired result.
You can either
radicalize your opinion (you start blaming that celebrity, emphasize his/her flaws)
or
Moderate it (you start saying like “s/he is not that bad”, sympathize with them).

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