Tuesday, January 13, 2015

word of the day: gesellschaft

The word of the day is gesellschaft:
 
1. an association of individuals for common goals, as for entertainment, intellectual, or cultural purposes or for business reasons.
2. Sociology. a society or group characterized chiefly by formal organization, impersonal relations, the absence of generally held or binding norms, and a detachment from traditional and sentimental concerns, and often tending to be rationalistic and secular in outlook.
German, equivalent to Geselle companion + -schaft -ship (dictionary.com)


"The rock glanced off the surface with six gazelleschaft leaps before plunging into the fathomless waters of Lake Sandali, the twin sister of Lake Shayesteh."

 - Karen Elizabeth Gordon, Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative


 See, this is a pun.

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