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Old May 03, 2008, 03:34 PM
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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.
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Traci, el nombre de me esposa. ¿Que Bonita? El nombre y la mujer.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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Sí, a mí me gustan esas también. De las cuántas que hay, ¿cómo se pudiera elegir unas pocas?
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I love serendipity and acurrucadito, Rusty.
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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.
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Sosia, I believe you meant fünfhundertfünfundzwanzig. What a mouthful!
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Another word I like is ditto, because it makes me think of the film Ghost and the way it was used there...
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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.
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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...)
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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"
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.
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Sosia, my apologies! I got derailed while looking for the missing umlauts.

Fünfhundertfünfundfünzig is a cool number.
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derailed? sounds good
you can't say that in Spanish "me descarrilé mientras miraba las umlauts..."
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derailed? sounds good
you can't say that in Spanish "me descarrilé mientras miraba las umlauts..."
to be/get derailed = desviarse - "me desvié mientras ..."
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Y en castizo y poco delicado se puede decir : irse por los cerros de Ubeda, o salirse por peteneras.
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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.
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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.
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Me gusta:

murmullo
susurro

whisper
whisp

Crazy, huh?

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Gracias, Iris. Aprendí más aquí y aquí.
Thanks for the links Rusty. Those are 2 new expressions for me.
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