• ADU
  • Accessory Dwelling Unit
• Emigrate vs Immigrate vs Migrate
  • Emigrate means to leave one's country to live in another.
  • Immigrate is to come into another country to live permanently.
  • Migrate is to move, like birds in the winter.
• Mamihlapinatapai
  • Word from ancient Yagan language
  • “To look at each other, hoping that either will offer to do something, which both parties much desire done but are unwilling to do."
  • A lost language's untranslatable legacy - BBC Travel https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180402-mamihlapinatapai-a-lost-languages-untranslatable-legacy
  • Life In A Day 2010 Film - YouTube
• N.B.
  • Nota Bene - note well
• Pareto principle
  • The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the "vital few").[1] Other names for this principle are the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity.
• TOOTBLAN
  • Thrown out on the bases like a nincompoop
• Universal Design
  • The design of a product, service, or environment to be as accessible as possible to as many people as possible without the need for adaptation or accommodations.
• Werifesteria
  • To wander longingly through the forest in search of mystery
• Vexillology
  • the study of flags—their history, symbolism, design, and usage.
  • A person who studies flags is called a vexillologist.
• Yak shaving
  • "Yak shaving" refers to a series of seemingly unrelated and often trivial tasks that you find yourself doing in order to solve a larger problem. The term was coined by Carlin J. Vieri at MIT and popularized by a segment in the TV show "Ren & Stimpy" (1) ( Yak Shaving Defined - I'll get that done, as soon as I shave this yak. - Scott Hanselman's Blog) (2) ( yak shaving - Wiktionary, the free dictionary).
  • Imagine you need to fix a bug in your code, but to do that, you need to update a library. To update the library, you need to install a new version of a package manager, which requires updating your operating system, and so on. Each step feels like a distraction from your main goal, but it's necessary to eventually achieve it (1) ( Yak Shaving Defined - I'll get that done, as soon as I shave this yak. - Scott Hanselman's Blog).