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Favorite Words?
BelleMorte:
As for me… well I do like to have fun with this short sentence…. “Ouate de phoque” .
These words are French, yet in that order they mean nothing!!!.. why?… because the word “ouate” mean “cottonball”, “de” mean “the”, and “phoque” is a “seal”… yet the fun is with the pronunciation….
Let me show you how to pronounce it, you’ll see it’s… very, very simple….
Ouate de phoque
What the fuck
neminem:
Yeah, and in math jargon, "onto" is an adjective.
What it meant in German is really of little importance to English-speakers. In English, it came here as a prefix. Every once in a while, though, *fixes become full-fledged syntactic words, as appears to be happening with uber.
Uber is a good lexeme, anyway, though I'm far fonder of it in prefix form than word form.
As for BelleMorte's post - my favorite word in another language has got to be the Latin word "facio" - translates, "I do". The c is hard, by the way.
Then there's "fac", the imperative form, as well as "facit", "he did".
novium:
I like cachinnare. it looks and sounds like a cackle.
Darla:
--- Quote from: Valiar Marcus on July 06, 2006, 05:37:55 AM ---Consider me well and truly chastised. I do know what it means, but my command of German was barely conversational as of 15 years ago, and now is much much less than that. ;)
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Heh. Not chastised. I'm just being a smartass. ;) Heck, I've got to have something to show for 12 years (so far) in Germany besides a taste for Jacob's Kroenung coffee and Broetchen with Nutella. And a lead foot.
Valiar Marcus:
--- Quote from: Darla on July 09, 2006, 07:11:29 PM ---
--- Quote from: Valiar Marcus on July 06, 2006, 05:37:55 AM ---Consider me well and truly chastised. ...
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Heh. Not chastised. I'm just being a smartass. ;)
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Well, color me shocked! ;D
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