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| Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 6172 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes  Speaks: FrenchC1 | Message 25 of 124 12 December 2009 at 10:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Je veux du cafe au lait au lit.
I want some white coffee in bed. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| TannerS Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5613 days ago 58 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Latin, Ancient Greek | Message 26 of 124 12 December 2009 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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In English, I have long thought that the word "Orchard" sounds great. It always conjures up strong mental images in my mind. Whenever I tell someone this, I usually just get weird looks, though.
"удовлетворительно" has been my favorite Russian word since I began studying a few months ago. (Also, does anyone know if this is only used exclusively in the Russian grading scale or if I may use it to mean satisfactory in any respect?) "Altisonante" has been my favorite Spanish word for a while, now. "Fremdsprachigschwierigkeit" is a cool word to say in German, though it may just be because of my love of long words, haha. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ymapazagain Senior Member Australia myspace.com/amywiles Joined 6963 days ago 504 posts - 538 votes Speaks: English* Studies: SpanishB2 | Message 28 of 124 13 December 2009 at 9:48am | IP Logged | ||
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My favourite Spanish word has always been "desafortunadamente." It just feels great to say!
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| tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 6124 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French | Message 29 of 124 13 December 2009 at 10:07am | IP Logged | ||
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i like "righteous" and "righteousness".
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| kyssäkaali Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5557 days ago 203 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish | Message 30 of 124 13 December 2009 at 4:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Reverse. I love this word, especially when used as a verb (not necessarily to a car reversing, but some kind of ailment or hinderance, or anything). "The spell reversed." Mmmm. The r-coloured vowel can be hideous to the ears at times, and other times it sounds quite regal!
Regardless is another good one. Empress, countess, princess, and other titles with the feminine -ess ending. In Finnish, for some reason, I really love the 2nd person plural pronoun te. Perhaps it is because we lack this pronoun in English, but it also makes statements sound important. "Kuulkaa tarkkaan, te kaikki!" I love Finnish vocabulary in general, but this it the only word that comes to mind that excites me to use it or hear it being used. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6441 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 31 of 124 13 December 2009 at 6:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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For those of you who like long words, when I was in 8th grade all the teachers had a list of progressively longer words, one for each week of school.
If a student was bad, they had to write the word between 50-200 times. Words went from smaller words, like "vasodilitation" to longer words, including "antidisestablishimentarianism" and the final word of the year, which was "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" (a type of lung disease, I believe). I remember how to pronounce that word because in 6th grade, my friend's mom was a nurse (or maybe a doctor) and he taught us all how to say it. lol. Edited by IronFist on 13 December 2009 at 6:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gusutafu Senior Member Sweden Joined 5525 days ago 655 posts - 1039 votes Speaks: Swedish* | Message 32 of 124 13 December 2009 at 7:45pm | IP Logged | ||
Their translations to Swedish are equally awesome. "Bomber och granater - Bombs and grendades!" or "Nu blommar asfalten - And now the asphalt is in full bloom!". They seem to be different from the French originals. The Captain makes Tintin worth reading, I can't stand Tintin's politcally correct scoutlike smugness. "Kulspruta (machinegun)" is pretty manly, it means "Bullet sprayer". There are lots of cool military words, they are often archaic, terse and unapologetic. A Greek favourite is Παντοκράτωρ, The Almighty. Krator is such a strong word, with the KR- and the accented A. Also, there are tons of fantastic words in (Old) Church Slavonic, like 'reché', as in 'reché Gospod'', 'razbojnik' - robber and 'tat' - thief. 'Plot' for flesh and the plural form 'chada' - children (sort of) are also nice. Most of these are used in modern Russian as well. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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