Sunday, July 23, 2006

folderol

Sometimes spelled "falderal," this is another word of which I'm particularly fond. A word, according to the They Might Be Giants song in which I first heard it, that denotes the sort of items you might find buried in the sand at the beach: to knick-knacks, trinkets, trifles. It also applies to nonsense, to trivial babble, spoken or written. It is something small and cheap you might find on someone's mantle, and something a child might say to you in a moment of verbal experimentation. In a similar moment, if I were to invent a word to approximate the meaning of the word "folderol," it would be "insignificencia."

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