This is also unironically a good way to get more comfortable spontaneously speaking a language you’re learning. Don’t know the word for refrigerator? Cold food box. Don’t know how to say yawn? Tired sound. Etc. You’ll be more or less understandable and people will probably tell you the word you need when they figure out what you mean.
It is also the only way to speak in Toki Pona
Toki Pona is overdoing it, but it’s also how Esperanto is doing it: fridujo = cold-container. Also German, now you’re mentioning it: Kühlschrank = cold-cabinet.
this is great advice.
This is good word making
I will keep this in my thinking blob.
Call me when tea, coffee or lemonade taste of something beyond bitter water
Call me when you develop the palate of an adult.
Electronics are just sparky silicon.
The way transistors and integrated circuits are made is called lithography. Stone scribing. If you describe it that way, electricity sounds like magic.
Electronics are magic boxes of poisonous green crackers with black rectangle bugs crawling on them.
And the black rectangle bugs stop working when the magic smoke gets out