Beautiful words

Beautiful words
 

Do you have any favorite words? Words that sound beautiful to you in either English or Spanish? I love the word tangerine. I also like dragonfly and tambourine.:thumbsup:

Traci, el nombre de me esposa. ¿Que Bonita? El nombre y la mujer.

I like using the verb opine instead of saying to state an opinion. I learned that it existed in English after learning it in Spanish. También me gusta la palabra chabacano se me hace much chistosa.

Me gustan murciélago, catorce, miércoles, y acurrucadito. Hay muchas palabras que endulzan la oreja.

I also like intrigue, whisper, snuggle, serendipity, and melancholy (as in pensive).

Nice words. Quizá te guste una de las de Iris, pero en español: libélula. También luciérnaga es similar a murciélago.

Sí, a mí me gustan esas también. De las cuántas que hay, ¿cómo se pudiera elegir unas pocas?

I love serendipity and acurrucadito, Rusty.:love:

I also love serendipity.
english:classic, spectacular
Spanish:aluvión, mariquita, reconfortar, morriña
german: Kleinod, funfhundertfunfundfünzig, Amtsschimmel
I have more, those are the first ones I remember.
saludos :D

Sosia, I believe you meant fünfhundertfünfundzwanzig. What a mouthful!

Another word I like is ditto, because it makes me think of the film Ghost and the way it was used there...:):love:

Are you serious when you say you like those German words? They sound horrible to me!But I love mariquita and morriña(makes me think of Julio Iglesias...)

german words have nice sounds.
really it's fünfhundertfünfundfünzig (it's the number 555). It's like Frühstück (breakfast) words that make me like to say while eating a "Polvorón" :D
Kleinod it's like serendipity, a rescued old word, and means "little treasure"
Amtsschimmel ("moho de ministerio"/ministry's mold) means bureaucracy (papers waiting in a department)

Try to say "spectacular" in a loud voice. It's really SPECTACULAR.
saludos :D

Sosia, my apologies! I got derailed while looking for the missing umlauts.

Fünfhundertfünfundfünzig is a cool number.

derailed? sounds good :D
you can't say that in Spanish "me descarrilé mientras miraba las umlauts..."

to be/get derailed = desviarse - "me desvié mientras ..."

Y en castizo y poco delicado se puede decir : irse por los cerros de Ubeda, o salirse por peteneras.:)

Gracias, Iris. Aprendí más aquí y aquí.

When I was first learning German, I fell in love with how several words can be strung together. A classic is the "Danube steamship company/society/corp captain", rendered as Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän.

Me gusta:

murmullo
susurro

whisper
whisp

Crazy, huh?

Elaina:rolleyes:

Thanks for the links Rusty. Those are 2 new expressions for me.