AeroScap Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 My favourite at the moment is propensity. Starting to replace daily average words with that >.< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serebii Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Facetious....partially because it has got every vowel in it, in order, but also because I'm always being facetious Also, if you want to be a pedant who wishes to include y as a vowel, you could have facetiously, as in "Joe is acting facetiously" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxigen_Waste Posted April 21, 2010 Author Share Posted April 21, 2010 (edited) partially because it has got every vowel in it I preffer simultaneously. Because it's ironic that it uses all 5 vowels (5 and a half, to be precise... as Y is a semi-vowel) ... simultaneously. Fun, ainnit? Edited April 21, 2010 by Oxigen_Waste Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergrunch Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Classical Ainu aejajkotujmasiramsujpa - "I keep swaying my heart afar and toward myself." (with applicative voice, i.e. the swaying must be done over something explicitly stated). Russian yabloko - "apple." Japanese gyakuten - often translated as "turn-around," but it's closer to Kuhn's term "paradigm shift." Yup'ik Inuit tuntussuqatarniksaitengqiggtuq - "He had not yet said again that he was going to hunt raindeer." I'll post some others if I remember them or where to re-look them up. And I'm sure there are some good English ones that I can't think of at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Wow, lots of people throwing down the big boy words in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayseven Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Inertia has always been a nice word to me, and I've always been meaning to keep a note of words I love but I never do. CELLAR DOOR! (no, not really. Not at all.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Ah, lots of good ones already taken. I'll see if I can remember any of the ones I like ... Halikarnassos is great. I once got it stuck in my head like a line from a song. Was very strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chairdriver Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Any word which is part of a "save point" in a J-New song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellmeister Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Plethora simply because I never knew what it meant till the other day and it literally stuns my heart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierce_LiNk Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 I've got a fondness of the word Excellent, for some reason. I think it looks nice when written down, and it just sounds lovely to say. Also, it makes me think of Bill and Ted! Another one is Professional, where my Mum was ranting and raving a few months ago and called somebody a "Professional Bastard." I never laughed so much in my life. Gained so much more love for that word since that day. Hahahah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paj! Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Swimming is lovely when written down/said, as it gives the impression of the action itself. Similar with Loop. I just imagine Wonder Woman trapping someone really gently in her lasso as someone says it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raining_again Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Can I join in with clever words? onomatopoeia but more because of its meaning, and that its dire to spell - I hated that one in English class Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaggle64 Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Marvelous. I love just swilling it around my mouth. Mmmmmaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrv-e-lousssss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintenchris Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Clunge C L U N G E Say it out loud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Ooh, platypus is lovely as well. Also a cool animal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 Concuss has always been one of my favorites, and I couldn't think of it earlier today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 ClungeC L U N G E Say it out loud We have a winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 I'd like to throw in floccinaucinihilipilification which I have been able to pronounce since I heard it on Wheel of Fortune nearly 20 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tissue Town Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 I like the word Cunt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 I prefer cunting to straight forward cunt. But if we're going for foreign: Italian - sbaglio (mistake) as it rolls off the tongue quite nicely. And sounds like a kids cereal. Japanese - kamikakushi ('hidden by gods' / spirited away) which again just rolls off the tongue nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 I like the word troglodyte. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coolness Bears Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 I've always liked... COOLNESS and BEARS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh64 Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 Intense. !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 Intertextuality, absolutely delicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted April 22, 2010 Share Posted April 22, 2010 Not when you hear it every other sentence for three years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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