Wildness is an online literary and arts journal.

Where Language Ends After Keith LeonardHow can a single language carry a pitch-perfect word? A color parade dozens of nuanced inflections in one tongue but only sing a solitary hue elsewhere? The slang-term overused in Playa del Carmen mean the exact opposite in the high-altitude pulse of Bogotá?In Japanese, there is a single word that means finding beauty in imperfections. Linguists think the word bully evolved from the Dutch word boel, meaning lover. The word awful meant full of awe. I listen