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| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5829 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 33 of 124 15 December 2009 at 2:13am | IP Logged | ||
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In Esperanto, I love the word polvosuĉilo- vacuum cleaner. It's just fun to say. And
diskturnilo always makes me laugh- it's literally a "disk turning tool", a record player. My favorite Japanese word would have to be ちょっと, not because of it's meaning or sound in particular, it's just so goddamn USEFUL and there's no equivalent in English. I must say it five or six times a day and I only spend about an hour in the presence of other people who know what it means each day anyway. I'm sure when I go to Japan I'll use it even more. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6035 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 34 of 124 15 December 2009 at 3:07am | IP Logged | ||
These words also exist in the modern Bulgarian language, except 'tat'. My favourite English word is "abomination", for some strange reason. I'm probably influenced by Dune novels. I also like "betwixt" and "hitherto" but these two are archaic. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geann.amore Newbie United States Joined 5459 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 35 of 124 15 December 2009 at 3:41am | IP Logged | ||
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amazing....!-> nice to say it..really it is..
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| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5829 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 36 of 124 15 December 2009 at 4:04am | IP Logged | ||
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Ah, thought of my favorite Yiddish word- "plotz", it's absolutely my favorite thing to use
this word whenever I get the chance. "Potchke" isn't bad either. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| genini1 Senior Member United States Joined 5469 days ago 114 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 37 of 124 15 December 2009 at 4:19am | IP Logged | ||
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I like the banal because there was this really effeminate guy in my class who kept pronouncing it b-anal rather then banal.
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| pookiebear79 Groupie United States Joined 6031 days ago 76 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Swedish, Italian | Message 38 of 124 15 December 2009 at 4:52am | IP Logged | ||
Those are both really good ones. In English I really like 'plethora' and use it perhaps more than I should, but I'm not one to shy away from words that are considered old fashioned, too formal, etc. I was a spelling bee nerd, read constantly (which added to my vocabulary in a natural way,) and liked to look through the dictionary for fun as a kid. Now I'm by no means a walking dictionary, but it's just an extension of my personality that I use words that can be considered formal, old fashioned, etc., rather than some sort of affectation (unlike some 'word of the day calendar' types who force these words unnaturally into their speech as a means to try to impress people.) If I seem to talk 'weird', it's because I am, and I can't help it. Another one I like is 'vulgar.' For me, it's a case of why exclaim 'omigosh, gross!' or 'oh, it's awful!' when you can put on a faux 'haughty, but restrained and dignified' tone and just say "It's vulgar." (Actually, that's directly influenced by one of my favorite movies, so it's been a favorite for a long time.) I also like 'appalling' and 'pillock' (even though I know the origin of the latter isn't very nice.) Another slangy word I've grown fond of is 'overshare' in lieu of my beloved 'TMI' (too much information) because TMI has become too common and it's just not as fun anymore. But overshare almost fills the void for those times when someone tells you something awkwardly personal and/or vulgar in nature. ;) (Naturally, I don't really act snobby to strangers and tell them something is vulgar, but I use it a lot when I'm speaking "family and friendspeak," which of course contains many expressions we don't actually say to strangers anyway because we have loads of weird slang and expressions that wouldn't really make sense to others without the whole backstory.) In other languages, for some reason I seem to have a love of words related to peanuts and peanut derivatives. I love the sound of the French word 'cacahuètes,' stemming from my very first French class (the prof was an extremely expressive, wonderfully eccentric Parisienne who made everything sound alive and interesting, LOL.)One day she brought in different foods and told us their names in French, and I always remembered 'les cacahuètes.' However, in all these years I never saw it written until I looked up the spelling just now, and I must say it's not so exciting in its written form. I think it's the 'caca' that's a bit off putting. My other peanutty word that I like is the Dutch 'pindakaas.' Even though it's peanut butter, it literally reads as 'peanut cheese' which I find hilarious. Those are the only foreign language favorites I can think of right on the spot, though I'm sure there are more. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| MegatronFilm Triglot Senior Member United States peligrosa.tumblr.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5939 days ago 130 posts - 275 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 39 of 124 15 December 2009 at 5:38am | IP Logged | ||
Similarly to this, I love to say Purtroppo in Italian. Hmm, I haven't studied Italian in a long time. I need to get back to it sometime. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5698 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 40 of 124 15 December 2009 at 11:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Telling an Italian lady MY difficult and special Italian word "cucchiaino", little spoon, she told me her word,
awesome to say: "eucaristia". Because in Italian they speak out each letter: ee-uu-ka-ris-tii-aa :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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