Showing posts with label the meaning of lagom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the meaning of lagom. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Mera Lagom

OK, loving this description of the Swedish word lagom from Mental Floss...
Ruth Sanderson

16. Lagom (Swedish) Maybe Goldilocks was Swedish? This slippery little word is hard to define, but means something like, “Not too much, and not too little, but juuuuust right.”
This word is interesting too.  Hopefully I won't need it any time soon, as death by bacon could be another to put it: :-)
1. Kummerspeck (German)
Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.  Check out this and other interesting words at wonderful-foreign-words-we-could-use-english.

Mmmm bacon, it's looking pretty good right about now... gotta run and resist at the gym before getting myself into trouble.  Have a great Wednesday!


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