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What is the prettiest word you know?

Started by Pica Pica, February 17, 2009, 10:42:18 AM

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Lutin

#20
February 18, 2009, 08:29:52 AM
Love, mum, dad, nature, peace, happiness, trees... And I agree, harmony. Melody, melodious, harmonious, piano, music, university... Nature, learning and music generally, I think.

I also love words that end in "-under" - assunder, thunder, blunder... (even chunder, though to a slightly lesser extent... :P).

- amélioré (from améliorer, to improve [French])

- ahijado (godson [Spanish])
- farmacéutica (pharmacy [Spanish])
- murciélagos (bats [Spanish])

- perpustakaan (library [Indonesian])
- beristirahat (rest [Indonesian])

Diphthongs. I love diphthongs. ;D
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Pica Pica

#21
February 18, 2009, 08:30:28 AM
it's not pretty but i do like the word volksemeinschaft
'For the circle may be squared with rising and swelling.' Kit Smart
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Nero

#22
February 18, 2009, 08:32:28 AM
Quote from: Pica Pica on February 18, 2009, 08:30:28 AM
it's not pretty but i do like the word volksemeinschaft

what the hell does that mean?  :laugh:
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mina.magpie

#23
February 18, 2009, 08:42:11 AM
I'm adding choice, compassion and, just because I like the sound, pneumonia. Yeah, I am that odd. ~_^

I would have to say my favourite word in Afrikaans is "langsamig" (can't think of a direct translation, but it means to take your time in making a decision or doing something.)

Mina.
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Pica Pica

#24
February 18, 2009, 08:43:46 AM
it means the community of the people, especially the community of the ayran people that hitler tried to create...the meaning is horrible, but the sound is good.
'For the circle may be squared with rising and swelling.' Kit Smart
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Lutin

#25
February 18, 2009, 08:47:57 AM
Compassion's a good one. :angel:

Malapropism... (Sorry, I know I've already gone, but it is *such* a lovely word!).

Floccinaucinihilipilification. ;D ;D ;D (To estimate something as worthless, roughly-speaking).

The Russian word for "hello" - Zdravstvujtye (sorry, my computer has issues with non-Latin script... ::)).

And, speaking of Latin (although I know it's a phrase, not a single word) - quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur.

(Anything said in Latin sounds profound/everything sounds more impressive when said in Latin).

;D

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Pica Pica

#26
February 18, 2009, 08:51:36 AM
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
'For the circle may be squared with rising and swelling.' Kit Smart
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Nero

#27
February 18, 2009, 08:54:49 AM
Quote from: Pica Pica on February 18, 2009, 08:51:36 AM
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus

hmm lemme guess - 'let sleeping dragons lie?'
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Lutin

#28
February 18, 2009, 08:56:20 AM
Nunquam lamiae morde me dice.

Nunquam commoda homini lupinotuum pectinem crinalem.

;D >:-)
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Jeatyn

#29
February 18, 2009, 08:57:26 AM
I like the way "bubble" sounds, it's cute and fun to say

I also like "banana"

it can go on forever and still look right

banananananananananananana  :D
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Pica Pica

#30
February 18, 2009, 08:59:12 AM
Quote from: Nero on February 18, 2009, 08:54:49 AM
hmm lemme guess - 'let sleeping dragons lie?'

never tickle a sleeping dragon
'For the circle may be squared with rising and swelling.' Kit Smart
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Nero

#31
February 18, 2009, 09:00:22 AM
Quote from: Pica Pica on February 18, 2009, 08:59:12 AM
never tickle a sleeping dragon

ah. so now we're getting into pretty phrases.
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Pica Pica

#32
February 18, 2009, 09:04:24 AM
a good phrase is the scottish one,
'many a mickle makes a muckle'
'For the circle may be squared with rising and swelling.' Kit Smart
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Nero

#33
February 18, 2009, 09:05:31 AM
Quote from: Pica Pica on February 18, 2009, 09:04:24 AM
a good phrase is the scottish one,
'many a mickle makes a muckle'

which means?
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Pica Pica

#34
February 18, 2009, 09:06:56 AM
lots of little things make a larger thing
'For the circle may be squared with rising and swelling.' Kit Smart
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Nero

#35
February 18, 2009, 09:10:03 AM
oh i thought mickle must be a kind of food.
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Lutin

#36
February 18, 2009, 10:53:14 AM
"I love you" is beautiful. :icon_love: ^-^
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Nero

#37
February 18, 2009, 11:15:30 AM
Quote from: William on February 18, 2009, 10:53:14 AM
"I love you" is beautiful. :icon_love: ^-^

i wouldn't exactly call that phrase pretty.
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Lutin

#38
February 18, 2009, 11:23:41 AM
Oh? Depends on who's saying it and who's on the receiving end, of course. Beautiful because it's meaningful, rather than being beautiful in and of itself, maybe?
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Pica Pica

#39
February 18, 2009, 11:25:57 AM
the meaning is lovely, but seperate from the meaning it is a very staccato, mundane group of sounds.
'For the circle may be squared with rising and swelling.' Kit Smart
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