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It’s a family of North Sea words at various stages of commercialization/gentrification: koselig,gesellig,hygge,cosagach,cozy.
by balsam 3y ago
It’s a family of North Sea words at various stages of commercialization/gentrification: koselig,gesellig,hygge,cosagach,cozy.
- frantathefranta 3y agoMany people got that hygge book, but it's funny when you actually go to Denmark and find out most of it is actually made up. Hygge is real, but it's being pushed way more now that it's become a global word.
- sprkwd 3y agoWe have a new build housing estate not far away called Hygge Park or something similar. Really dates it to a moment in time.
- Tade0 3y agoI got a taste of this pop-culture version in my corner of the world a few years ago, where apparently it meant furniture in all white, fake white bricks on the walls and, above all, offensive amounts of 3000-4000K light from LEDs.
- DonHopkins 3y agoThe Dutch would be crazy not to package up their gezellig coffeeshop and brown cafe culture, decor, and furniture in shipping containers for export, and deploy them in American states and other countries that have legalized cannabis, the same way the Irish package and ship entire prefabricated pubs around the world. https://medium.com/@Thrillist/how-the-irish-ship-entire-pubs-around-the-world-2d541a349fc5 https://medium.com/@Thrillist/how-the-irish-ship-entire-pubs... >How the Irish ship entire pubs around the world >You may not have been to Ireland, but you’ve still pulled up a stool to a Dublin-made bar counter.