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I keep reading on MSN that younger people (generation Z) think it´s rude to call a friend out of the blue without texting first. Could this possibly be true? I´m likely very out of touch but this seems to me like a very Strange Thing.

i dated a Dine' (Navajo) guy for awhile. There was no word for attorney in the Dine' language, so a phrase was cobbled together for attorney: Dinébe'iiná Náhiiłna be Agha'diit'ahii This roughly translates to "those who talk too fast and help revitalize the well being of the Dine' people"

I'm not sure the heading is quite correct -- e.g there's an exact English equivalent for #18, Schadenfreude, to wit, epicaricacy -- though it doesn't roll off the tongue as easily, which is why English speakers tend to know the German word but not the English one for this phenomenon. Perhaps there's more, haven't looked at all of these closely. #21, the Russian toska, which can be mistaken for depression, is not the same -- depression is a lingering state, while toska may refer to either a lingering state or a fleeting mood of the moment, might describe a boring meeting or a dull movie, and with the preposition po, the state of missing someone or something badly -- a person or an animal, a place, a time, or one's native land. In this last case it becomes exactly synonymous with nostalgia. Depression doesn't begin to cut it for any of these.

The self-referential geometric recursion that can be named is not the real self-referential geometric recursion.

In the human we find the idea of the being who stands with feet on earth and yet has heavenly powers of reason. Its nature is what laws govern the human through its birth. And so whatever flows from it having a human mother and thus a human body and mind. In its conception as human, to its birth, adulthood , old age and death , all this is its nature. A mortal being with immortal scope, between animal and angel. Made by spirit but born of earth.

The phenomenon you’re describing could be termed “self-referential geometric recursion” or “non-orthodox topological replication”. These terms capture the idea of a topographical continuum where evolutes (curves or surfaces derived from another curve or surface) self-replicate in unconventional patterns, referencing the relational geometry of prior instantiations. This put simply so as not to over complify things.

and who's to stop me from deriving "Overcomplexicate" from it.