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| reyeszjj Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5608 days ago 11 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, English, Spanish Studies: French, Latin | Message 105 of 124 24 March 2011 at 3:56am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Spanish words with the superlative ending 'ísimo' or similar 'issimus -a -um' in Latin
Like in Spanish cansadísimo, ocupadísimo in Latin clarissima, pulcherrimus 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| koba Heptaglot Senior Member AustriaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5679 days ago 118 posts - 201 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, French | Message 106 of 124 24 March 2011 at 6:23am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Hungarian has some words that give me a good feeling by just reading them aloud, specially long words.
"rettenetesen" ((awfully) - it just sounds great saying it. "oroszlán" (lion) - same for this one. "tigris" (tiger) - this one is somehow funny, specially because the Hungarian "S" is pronounced like "sh" "biciklizni" (to ride a bike), internetezni (to surf on the web) - that's also a funny aspect of Hungarian, nouns can become verbs by simply adding a "-ni" in the ending "magyarázni" (to explain) - This one is very peculiar. "Magyar" = hungarian, so "to explain" is literally "to make it hungarian", funny, huh? Besides that, I love the agglutinative aspect of Hungarian, it just makes the language much more fun to learn. --- In German there's also one that comes to my mind now "Weltmeister" (world champion). It's funny to me because "meister", in other contexts can mean "master", so I always see it like "master of the world". 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Segata Triglot Groupie Germany Joined 4982 days ago 64 posts - 125 votes Speaks: German*, Japanese, English Studies: Korean, Esperanto | Message 107 of 124 24 March 2011 at 10:32am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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加之 （しかのみならず）Shikanominarazu, "what's more" こら Kora, "Oi!", "Hey!" 押忍！ Osu, anything between "Good morning" and "wazzup!" 漢 Otoko, "man". This feels awesome to write. 漢と書いて「おとこ」と読め、こんやろう！ お前はもう死んでいる Omae ha mou shinde iru. "You are already dead." Okay, so I know this isn't a word, but.. thrown in for good measure. Also just about anything in classical Japanese (which sounds awesome) and Kansai dialect (which sounds like Japanese if it were a lively language). Honorable Mention: Austrian German - Blunzngröstl. Edited by Segata on 24 March 2011 at 10:37am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Lightning Groupie United Kingdom livelanguagelove.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5149 days ago 58 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese | Message 108 of 124 24 March 2011 at 7:03pm | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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'cellar door' - said to be one of the most beautiful words in the English language. I quite like it. Say it a couple of times and it sounds like a French word. :) Japanese: kirei - pretty - I just love everything about this word. I love how it's ki-re-i... and I like the Kanji (綺麗) and it's meaning, "pretty"! :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Didgeridoo Newbie United States Joined 4964 days ago 28 posts - 31 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish | Message 109 of 124 26 March 2011 at 4:55am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Some of the only exciting words I can think of are elements - just saying rubidium, tellurium, gallium, manganese, and strontium always makes me smile a bit. And now that I think of it, saying "smooth phosphorescent pools illuminated by light of crescent moon" sounds pretty cool. And I really like saying that something is "tangentially" related to another thing. :)
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That is the best thing I have read in a veeeeery long time xD Edited by Didgeridoo on 26 March 2011 at 4:59am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| Matt314 Newbie United States musicartplus.blogspo Joined 4805 days ago 9 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 110 of 124 26 March 2011 at 6:05am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
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Vaffanculo. ;)
I also find it quite funny that if you mispronounce "penne alla vodka", it's translated into "penis vodka" and it rolls of the tongue well. Same with Fico (fica), but it doesn't sound as good. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4989 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 111 of 124 26 March 2011 at 10:39am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
We use it in Polish too.
I don't know if it's restricted to males, my friend from Beijing has used it. She is very girly.
Thanks, I learned a new expression.
That's interesting thing I have learned. This 入らずんば Must be some old grammar. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||||||||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4989 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 112 of 124 26 March 2011 at 10:43am | IP Logged | |||||||||||
They used in American song, with those two guys called "Outcasts", when they were wearing those green outfits. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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