New Words and Phrases

It’s a good longread, although exceptionally pretentious: a 1978 article from The New Yorker on Johnny Carson.

Here’s the big words I learned (or at a minimum re-exposed my weak memory to):

• Solto mortale: a potentially lethal jump
• Molto simpatica: I never did find a definition for this, but I believe in Italian it would be used in reference to a woman who was “easy on the eyes”.
• Vide supra: I wasn’t able to track this down exactly, but I think it’s along the lines of “see above”
• Mutatis mutandis: a phrase I should know but have clearly forgotten, meaning “everything that needed to be changed, has been changed”.
• Echt: the real thing (the opposite of ersatz)
• Sodality: a fellowship or association

From a different article, an interview with Bernard Connolly, I picked up this one:

• Demos: the population of members of a society that bases itself cooperative culture rather than kinship; the set of citizens who feel they share values.

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