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What is your favorite word?
Van donk III:
Curmudgeon.
Skewbrow:
Ok. I tried to restrain myself, but you tempted me, so I plead "not guilty". The longest word in Finnish:
kumarreksituteskenteleentuvaisehkollaismaisekkuudellisenneskenteluttelemattomammuuksissansakaankopahan
Confessions:
* I didn't look it up. Memorized it when in junior high.
* Don't ask me what it means. IDK. The word was cooked up by a professor of Finnish language as a way of demonstrating the grammatically correct rules of tagging one suffix after another. So it is contrived. In addition to long compound words also common in German (and related languages) Finnish adds to the problem with its generous use of suffices.
lepetitfromage:
--- Quote from: Elysiana on 03 Sep 2012, 12:19 ---I've always been rather fond of "zephyr".
"Loaf" is one of those words that make me cringe! Along with "moist" and "sloppy".
--- End quote ---
Haha one of my friends has a serious issue with the word "moist". I never really understood it.
Effervescent is a fun one too.
If we're including other languages, I've always been fond of pourquoi, pomme de terre, chausettes, saucisson and papillon. :-) French has always been so much more fun to me than English.
Lines:
Schadenfreude. I guess that makes me a terrible person, but it's fun to say! As are several other german words.
I also like kitty, saffron, ridiculous, and illuminate, as well as many other words that have been mentioned so far.
Zingoleb:
How to Pronounce Schadenfreude
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