👉 Alright alright, settle down folks! Letās tackle a word that frankly deserves its own little pointy-headed fanfare ā let's talk about
thunderĀ¹
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Now, before you conjure up visions of booming skies and terrified sheepdogs, let me clarify. Technically, the phonetic spelling here is pretty straightforward: justā¦ thunder. ! (That exclamation point is absolutely critical. Itās there for dramatic effect, frankly. And also because I really like it.) But what we mean when we say "thunderĀ¹", especially in a somewhat... elevated context, isn't the meteorological event itself. Instead, and here this gets delightfully weird, we mean that uncomfortable feeling of something potentially disastrous just beingā¦ present . Itās that prickle on your neck before the downpour. That slight whiff of ozone that precedes a really bad decision. It's not necessarily a thing you can see, smell, or touch ā it's the absolutely dreadful, gut-deep awareness that you are in close proximity to something about to spectacularly unravel. Basically. We just feel like things are about to getā¦ a little bit loud . Itās the before, before the before. Before the actual, full-throttle, maybe-you'll-need-a-bailout thing. 1 is there to mark it as something that isnāt immediately and obviously bad - just... waiting. Here's an edgy (maybe
