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i'm so lucky to speak three languages... my elder brother and i were messing about one day, having a pointless conversation using all three languages, and muddling up our sentences... we were speaking sense, but it was all just multilingual... his GF was stroppy because she was convinced we were talking about her.... my husband was in hysterics, because he knew we weren't....!!
I figured out French, what other language besides English and French do you speak?
i'm so lucky to speak three languages... my elder brother and i were messing about one day, having a pointless conversation using all three languages, and muddling up our sentences... we were speaking sense, but it was all just multilingual... his GF was stroppy because she was convinced we were talking about her.... my husband was in hysterics, because he knew we weren't....!!
I figured out French, what other language besides English and French do you speak?
She speaks Italian as well as the other two. I am glad to hear of your adventures out @AHeerdt in your other thread. By the way, how long did it take to 'figure out' French lol. You guys should try learning an Asian language next, see how that goes down. None of those silly western letters or sounds, pah :nyah:
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
I like the word "quaff"
Like, my pompadour hairstyle is so perfectly quaffed.
It sounds positively 1950s.
@Lady_Alison, to quaff is to drink something with enthusiasm...
"He quaffed his ale, heartily."
I think you might mean 'coiffured' (pronounced quaff-you'red'), which is french for - hair-do...
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
*printing entire thread incase of scrabble game*
@ThailandTom: Silly boy - am compiling separate list of all words hitherto proffered.... Can attach current file if you wish.....
lol... sure! what exactly do you plan to do with all these words? @federica
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
We should incorporate at least three of them into our conversations every day, thereby confounding the enemy, and making them believe we know much more than what we really do what we know..... :crazy:
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
Can you believe it? There are no villages here, just small towns or unincorporated areas, and cottages are just small houses, or "homes" rather. Speaking of the west coast, New England may have a different tradition.
Rich people name their houses such that "Eagles Lair" might have a caretaker's cottage...
English words I can do without: obviously, awesome
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federicaSeeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubtModerator
one English word i would definitely feel like slapping someone over....
Something about when the French didn't lend their support in some war or something? I forget because I don't care.
My favorite was during the early 2000's when they renamed everything with "freedom"
Freedom fries.
On "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" (radio news show on public radio) a while back they were talking about a new airport security procedure that you didn't have to take your shoes off for. One of the guests quipped, "a Freedomoscopy".
The Thai phrase "mai pben rai". Good luck defining it, but it's sorta in the territory of "it doesn't matter", "no problem", "don't worry about it".
But as I learned, you have to be careful -- some things do matter. For example, the number of Thais with amputations from work accidents, who will quite literally say "mai pben rai", when working conditions could be improved. But on the other hand, the political system there has gone rampantly the other way, and everyone is bitching on every little thing...they need "mai pben rai".
Clearly, a middle path of "mai pben rai" is needed.
mellifluous.... sweet sounding...from mel/miel 'honey'. summer. ( William James said that the most beautiful phrase in the English language is...'summer afternoon '.) nocturne.
My favorite word is hammaslääkäri. Which meant dentist in Finnish. To make the sounds, you end up sounding like you are hawking up snot, which is always attractive. And Kartoffelsalat, which is potato salad in German I like a lot of Ojibwe/Anishinaabe words. Meegwetch is actually used with some frequency here, it carried over from the Native Americans to the fur traders and just stuck around. It makes thank you. I don't know if I have any favorite english words, but I have plenty of ones I dislike. Like moist, panties, slacks and davenport.
I always find it amusing how many words English needs compared to a lot of other languages. In many languages, single words take an entire sentence to define in English.
The Thai phrase "mai pben rai". Good luck defining it, but it's sorta in the territory of "it doesn't matter", "no problem", "don't worry about it".
But as I learned, you have to be careful -- some things do matter. For example, the number of Thais with amputations from work accidents, who will quite literally say "mai pben rai", when working conditions could be improved. But on the other hand, the political system there has gone rampantly the other way, and everyone is bitching on every little thing...they need "mai pben rai".
Clearly, a middle path of "mai pben rai" is needed.
lol for ages before I was as good at Thai as I am today, instead of mai bpen rai I used the term 'mai sonjai' which basically means I don't care. Glad I figured that one out when I did, you could be in 7/11 and you don't want a straw with your purchase, 'mai sonjai'
Some good English english.. mither.. to complain clobber.. clothes munter...an ugly person ( modern ) ranger... rhymes with hanger..a redhead ( from Orangutang ) chav...a socially disadvantaged person.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious I still love that word! hahaha
In sign language, my fav has always been....middle finger touching thumb, and flicking it off the same side shoulder out into an open hand. Go ahead...try it.
It means......not my problem, not my concern. Or like saying....whatever. My sister was deaf so this was my favorite sign to her when she would bug me to do chores for her, or to cover for her with our parents. lololol
The English word melanous: the quality of black hair or black skin, a dark colour (related to the word 'melanin'). I had to use that one in a poem I wrote! '...melanous earth...'
Saudade, in Portuguese, a kind of intense longing for someone (who may be far away in time or in space). I know this feeling and I was overjoyed when I finally discovered there was actually a word for it.
Mono-no-aware, in Japanese, meaning literally 'the pathos of things' - a deep awareness of the transience of all things. There are several other aesthetic terms used in haiku that lend expression to all sorts of interesting subtle nuances of perception and feeling, but this one is dear to me. It led me to coin (?) a word to express it in English, 'onceness.'
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I'm so grammatically anal - so, sue me!!
Dunno why, maybe for it's hilarity factor when people don't know what it means.
Example.
"Don't you dare renege on me"
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY"
quaint
Like, my pompadour hairstyle is so perfectly quaffed.
It sounds positively 1950s.
"He quaffed his ale, heartily."
I think you might mean 'coiffured' (pronounced quaff-you'red'), which is french for - hair-do...
Silly boy - am compiling separate list of all words hitherto proffered....
Can attach current file if you wish.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursie
but i wouldn't advise, 'all at once'!
What about "quiff "? Is this the same thing?
It is however, also a slang term for a promiscuous woman...
@Lady_Alison - are you sure you want me to put that in... for you?
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oh c'mon @Lady_Alison, i was speaking hypothetically....
English words I can do without: obviously,
awesome
'whatever'.....
Chuchichaeschtli - Kitchencabinet
Miuchmaeuchterli - chair the farmer sits on when milking cows
Those are Swiss.
But my favorite language is Swedish. Sjuksköterska means nurse.
Can you image being really sick in a hospital bed yelling
sjuksköterska sjuksköterska!
cacophony
:nyah:
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2012/03/20/dictionary-regional-english
with a link to a website for the Dictionary of American Regional English.
I mean, really.... they probably had spell-checker too...!
But as I learned, you have to be careful -- some things do matter. For example, the number of Thais with amputations from work accidents, who will quite literally say "mai pben rai", when working conditions could be improved. But on the other hand, the political system there has gone rampantly the other way, and everyone is bitching on every little thing...they need "mai pben rai".
Clearly, a middle path of "mai pben rai" is needed.
munted
summer.
( William James said that the most beautiful phrase in the English language is...'summer afternoon '.)
nocturne.
And Kartoffelsalat, which is potato salad in German
I like a lot of Ojibwe/Anishinaabe words. Meegwetch is actually used with some frequency here, it carried over from the Native Americans to the fur traders and just stuck around. It makes thank you.
I don't know if I have any favorite english words, but I have plenty of ones I dislike. Like moist, panties, slacks and davenport.
I always find it amusing how many words English needs compared to a lot of other languages. In many languages, single words take an entire sentence to define in English.
mither.. to complain
clobber.. clothes
munter...an ugly person
( modern ) ranger... rhymes with hanger..a redhead ( from Orangutang )
chav...a socially disadvantaged person.
Bumbino!
It means baby in italian
I still love that word! hahaha
In sign language, my fav has always
been....middle finger touching thumb, and flicking
it off the same side shoulder out into an open hand.
Go ahead...try it.
It means......not my problem, not my concern.
Or like saying....whatever.
My sister was deaf so this was my favorite sign
to her when she would bug me to do chores for her,
or to cover for her with our parents. lololol
I just learned this word. It means hubbub... also another great word.
Thus have I heard.
I also like the word "alas."
Saudade, in Portuguese, a kind of intense longing for someone (who may be far away in time or in space). I know this feeling and I was overjoyed when I finally discovered there was actually a word for it.
Mono-no-aware, in Japanese, meaning literally 'the pathos of things' - a deep awareness of the transience of all things. There are several other aesthetic terms used in haiku that lend expression to all sorts of interesting subtle nuances of perception and feeling, but this one is dear to me. It led me to coin (?) a word to express it in English, 'onceness.'