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de lukpo, 28 de febrer de 2014

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lukpo (Mostra el perfil) 28 de febrer de 2014 19.50.44

Is there a word in English, Esperanto or any other language, that you love, be it for its meaning, its sound, or its origin? Please post it here, and in a comment on my blog! We're also playing a game in which we invent stories or characters based on words.
Extra points if you post esperanto words, so that the language is disvastigata!

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PanthereaLeonis (Mostra el perfil) 4 de març de 2014 8.09.30

Ah, I must say, you chose a quite unfitting name for the thread. I hope you do know that pornography has nothing to do with playing word-games. (So stupefied by that, that I can't think of anything to answer the post with, pardon me.)

Clarence666 (Mostra el perfil) 4 de març de 2014 8.35.04

lukpo:Is there a word in English, Esperanto or any other language, that you love, be it for its meaning
RI (EO) - pronomo de la tria persono | pronoun for the 3rd person

(ligilo supre estas fusxa | link above is broken)

PanthereaLeonis (Mostra el perfil) 4 de març de 2014 9.31.01

I do like the word "cxambro". I like the sound of it, how it is balanced between the harder sound cx, and the softened br sound. I simply find it a pleasing word.

sudanglo (Mostra el perfil) 4 de març de 2014 12.12.56

The extension of the word porn to mean anything that can excite in the area of a narrow interest seems to me quite well established in English today.

Dismissing pictures from the Hubble telescope, one might refer to them as astronomers porn.

It is slightly jocular, usually derogative, and also not as well established as 'sexy' in, for example, this is now a sexy field in which to work; Carol Vorderman, the woman who made maths sexy

Collins on-line dictionary includes in its definitions of sexy

3.interesting, exciting, or trendy

makis (Mostra el perfil) 4 de març de 2014 16.42.19

Mamzono. Purely for it's literal meaning: breast belt.

Htŝu. For it's great onomatopoeic representation of a sneeze.

Ĉirkaŭnaĝi. Just because it sounds good.

alonsososo (Mostra el perfil) 4 de març de 2014 21.42.34

I came across the word flabbergasted (miregis) which stucks in my head for a while and which I like very much because of its sound (I am not English) My favourite E0 word is mirinda, which sounds so wonderful. And know I can see the same root.

PanthereaLeonis (Mostra el perfil) 5 de març de 2014 13.10.15

alonsososo:My favourite E0 word is mirinda
It does sound wonderful, so it is a truly good choice. I won't change a lot about it if I am to make up something. Wonderful is wonderful, and the sound of it should fit. Just like awkward. The very sound of it is awkward.

kaŝperanto (Mostra el perfil) 10 de març de 2014 16.47.19

I quite like the sound of a lot of the adverbs like "almenaŭ" and "ankoraŭ". They are just very different from normal words and sound apart in some way (and you get cool combos like "ĉirkaŭiras"). I also like the sound of the combinations with "ajn", like "iaj ajn". I know they are kind of weird to say, but I like the flow and extra emphasis it has. I'm also fond of anything that is 'r' heavy, because us English-speakers don't get to use rolled Rs.

I also like creative combinations of words, like "senamigi", "printempalveno", "sunvenonta", and generally any use of a root in an unusual way. I don't know that it's necessarily the words that do it for me in this case, but it's the fact that Esperanto allows for such interesting usage.

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