It's got such a pleasing sound to the ear, feels nice in the mouth when you say it, and even looks pretty nice on the page.
It means something in an advance state of use, with connotations of neglect or disrepair, and is often used to describe things that would be thrown away were they not rendered nessesary by being the only option.
To me it evokes urchins, rags, wildflowers, and a little bit of magic.
I hate the British one, indifferent about Canada.
No idea why..
This may not make any sense, I'm working it out as I type this.. but British slang is so "sharp" and more aggressive sounding than.. whatever my brain thinks other languages sound like..
Anyway pretty sure it just means I'm an anti-Britite racist. Damnit, found out I'm a racist again.
Fuck, because it is the most fucking versatile fucking word we could fucking come up with for things that we don’t know what the fuck they are or we fucking do but no one fucking cares.
I love what it represents, how it can be good or evil depending on your point of view (there's a reason why DnD used it as an axis perpendicular to Good-Evil), and it sounds really cool. It is also the first word I'd use to describe my life at any point in time. Maybe life itself!
It sounds good in all languages I know but has the distinction of sounding even better in English, despite coming from the Greek Kaos it somehow sounds cooler in English (a distinction shared by few, if any, other words coming from Greek to English). It is also written in an amazing manner, with a "H" that came out of nowhere and has no reason to be there other than just cause... Chaos. I love it.
The Greek pronunciation is actually Haos (with a heavy H like hotel), so this is where H is coming from. It's the C that is actually added in order for English to attempt to pronounce it closer to the original sound (and fail as per usual. Look up paranoia for example).
So it is! I don't know why I remembered it as kaos (καος with the accent somewhere, I don't know Greek, modern or ancient). It's χάος. Makes total sense.
Discombobulated. The first time I heard it, an old man I worked with had used it and I gave him shit for it because I thought he had made it up. I still laugh about that sometimes