Tag: four humors

jcatgrl:

taejira:

Forget the Myers-Briggs fucking personality assessment. I am dead tired of hearing if someone is an INFP or an ESLQ or whatever. I want to know if someone is melancholic or choleric. Bring back the four humors. I wanna see “Kaley, 16, phlegmatic” when I go to someone’s blog. Who is with me. Lets make this happen

here’s a test i found. go wild, y’all. (im choleric.)

“Your temperament is melancholic. The melancholic temperament is fundamentally introverted and thoughtful. Melancholic people often were perceived as very (or overly) pondering and considerate, getting rather worried when they could not be on time for events. Melancholics can be highly creative in activities such as poetry and art – and can become preoccupied with the tragedy and cruelty in the world. Often they are perfectionists. They are self-reliant and independent; one negative part of being a melancholic is that they can get so involved in what they are doing they forget to think of others.”

bonjourfrenchwords:

J’ai la flemme • I can’t be bothered • /ʒe la flɛm/ #frenchwords

I looked it up and yes, this word came from the word for phlegm, or mucus, one of the four humors, which supposedly causes sluggishness if you have too much of it. That’s where we get the English word “phlegmatic.” (Other humor-related words include sanguine [blood], melancholy [black bile], and choleric [yellow bile], which also gives us the French expression en colère.)

So, next time I can’t be bothered to do something, I’m going to say “I have phlegm.”