What are some of your favorite words?
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Re: What are some of your favorite words?
Vertegenwoordigingsbevoegdheid
Personenvennootschappen
Samenwerkingsvrijwilligersovereenkomst
Aandeelhoudersvergadering
Personenvennootschappen
Samenwerkingsvrijwilligersovereenkomst
Aandeelhoudersvergadering
Re: What are some of your favorite words?
I concur with Thunderboltfightinfrenchman wrote:Not putting a poll for this one since there are so many words. This was inspired by Callen telling me to watch a movie called Synecdoche, New York, which reminded me how much I like the word "synecdoche." Some other words I really like:
- Waterlogged
- Thunderbolt
- Serendipity
- Superfluous
I will post some more when I think of them. Please post your favoite words (@mods delete the inevitable racist comments please)
Re: What are some of your favorite words?
squash
palabra
terebinthine
palabra
terebinthine
Re: What are some of your favorite words?
fruitful (personal top 10)
ruminant
lastwithstanding (a word that doesn't exist but should)
ruminant
lastwithstanding (a word that doesn't exist but should)
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Re: What are some of your favorite words?
I fear this thread will consist of all words in all languages at some point.
Fine line to something great is a strange change.
Re: What are some of your favorite words?
I actually avoided posting Romanian words much, since almost nobody would get the appeal.princeofcarthage wrote:I fear this thread will consist of all words in all languages at some point.
But Romanian is a way better language phonetically than English. First of all, because there are no rules for pronounciation that make your tongue twist into knots and your mouth contort and purse into a grimace. Everything is read exactly as it's written, letter by letter, basically like classical Latin. Except we also added a layer of Slavic fluency, which strikes the perfect balance between the crisp and straight character of Latin and the fluidity of Slavic languages.
The world would be so much better off if we adopted Latin as a lingua franca again, instead of this weird tongue twister that English is.
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Re: What are some of your favorite words?
has anybody said "fuck"?
Hippocrits are the worst of animals. I love elifants.
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Re: What are some of your favorite words?
This seems insanely unlikelyprinceofcarthage wrote:I fear this thread will consist of all words in all languages at some point.
Dromedary Scone Mix is not Alone Mix
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Re: What are some of your favorite words?
What? Those are some of my favorite words and not a sentence.fightinfrenchman wrote:This seems insanely unlikelyprinceofcarthage wrote:I fear this thread will consist of all words in all languages at some point.
Fine line to something great is a strange change.
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Re: What are some of your favorite words?
You're so bad at posting, manprinceofcarthage wrote:What? Those are some of my favorite words and not a sentence.fightinfrenchman wrote:This seems insanely unlikelyprinceofcarthage wrote:I fear this thread will consist of all words in all languages at some point.
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Re: What are some of your favorite words?
yeah... someone who just got brutally roasted will say that.fightinfrenchman wrote:You're so bad at posting, manprinceofcarthage wrote:What? Those are some of my favorite words and not a sentence.Show hidden quotes
Fine line to something great is a strange change.
Re: What are some of your favorite words?
clavicle
dovlecel (Romanian for Cucurbita pepo, a kind of summer squash)
dovlecel (Romanian for Cucurbita pepo, a kind of summer squash)
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Re: What are some of your favorite words?
Clavicle is greatDolan wrote:clavicle
dovlecel (Romanian for Cucurbita pepo, a kind of summer squash)
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Re: What are some of your favorite words?
Jupân hulpav
Re: What are some of your favorite words?
Was just wondering why don't people use "really" more in its literal sense, like: Let's not just talk hypotheticals, let's do this really. [ree-uh-lee]
Meaning "in a real way".
Same for "basically" which has become too much of a filler word. It should be used more in its literal sense: We only covered these topics basically.
Meaning: they were just touched on a bit, but nothing beyond an outline was provided.
Meaning "in a real way".
Same for "basically" which has become too much of a filler word. It should be used more in its literal sense: We only covered these topics basically.
Meaning: they were just touched on a bit, but nothing beyond an outline was provided.
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Re: What are some of your favorite words?
I think you should work on smoothing that brain so you don't waste so much time pondering.
POC wrote:Also I most likely know a whole lot more than you.
POC wrote:Also as an objective third party, and near 100% accuracy of giving correct information, I would say my opinions are more reliable than yours.
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Re: What are some of your favorite words?
“frugality” — spoken by Queen Mary in “The Crown”
Spanish: “fortaleza” (force, power; fortress)
“ghastly”
“armistice” (with a heavy French accent)
“Wells Fargo”
Spanish: “fortaleza” (force, power; fortress)
“ghastly”
“armistice” (with a heavy French accent)
“Wells Fargo”
Re: What are some of your favorite words?
Is this badly written German?Mr_Bramboy wrote:Vertegenwoordigingsbevoegdheid
Personenvennootschappen
Samenwerkingsvrijwilligersovereenkomst
Aandeelhoudersvergadering
(I know it's Dutch)
Favourite words:
Argyraspis (silver shield)
Bombarda
Ritter (knight in german)
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Re: What are some of your favorite words?
Ritter is knight, Reiter is rider, just fyi :)
To contribute sth productive: one of my favorites is slipgefahr, just because it was everywhere in Amsterdam's red light quarter and slip as a anglicism(?) for female panties is still kinda used (or at least understood) in german, while gefahr means danger. So essentially a district full of prostitutes had signs saying "danger of panties" everywhere and it fucking cracked me up.
To contribute sth productive: one of my favorites is slipgefahr, just because it was everywhere in Amsterdam's red light quarter and slip as a anglicism(?) for female panties is still kinda used (or at least understood) in german, while gefahr means danger. So essentially a district full of prostitutes had signs saying "danger of panties" everywhere and it fucking cracked me up.
Re: What are some of your favorite words?
You are right, I got confused because the words are very similarscarm wrote:Ritter is knight, Reiter is rider, just fyi :)
To contribute sth productive: one of my favorites is slipgefahr, just because it was everywhere in Amsterdam's red light quarter and slip as a anglicism(?) for female panties is still kinda used (or at least understood) in german, while gefahr means danger. So essentially a district full of prostitutes had signs saying "danger of panties" everywhere and it fucking cracked me up.
(I changed it now to be an accurate translation)
Re: What are some of your favorite words?
half-assed
Re: What are some of your favorite words?
arsed > assed
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