Little backstory: I started relearning Spanish last week and I’ve learned so much more than I ever have just by studying and discovering new words with and without context. Well, I found that there are words that I just love! I’m currently obsessed with salpicar and mapache (splash and raccoon).

Anyway, point of the thread: What are some of your favorite words, in any language, and why do you like them?

reminds me that i gotta start trying to learn Japanese again lol.

anyway, for English, i really like the word ephemeral (the quality of lasting for a short span of time). recently came across the word steadfast (adjective for loyal or constant) which i find pleasant as well.

i remember there being an art project where someone attempted to invent words (The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows). idk if thats still going on, but i like the word anemoia that they came up with, which is a noun for "nostalgia for a time you've never known". surprised that hasnt caught on, very pretty and very applicable for...a lot of media these days lol

FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

recombobulation

scrumptious
garbanzo
Bagatelldelikt

doohickey

Is words an entry?

"Evaluation" is such a cool word simply because its not a compound word or otherwise made up and still includes all vowels of the Roman alphabet in a neat way.

"gerizekalı"
turkish for "idiot", lit. Back(wards)-smart, it's such a roundabout way of calling someone dumb and I love it

"Lagom" - A Swedish word that roughly means "just right". It is a satisfying word to say and use!

favourite word?


real

don’t have a specific word but i like that feeling when you say a word so much in a convo that it temporarily doesn’t sound like a word anymore and for a short while, you hear the sounds of the word for what it is

melancia

Yes, goluigi! I did that with “should” and “ice” in a conversation and then I realized how weird they actually look.

mi palabra favorita? I guess como.

Technically three words, but Creedence Clearwater Revival.
I don't even listen to their music, their name just has such a good mouthfeel.

From Anglo-Saxon: fús. Also Kroger and barnyard

I'm glad this thread has more explaining neat words than just listing off random favourites without explanation.

Some of my favourites
Banjax - To break, usually in reference to a limb.
Wean - A young child, my granny uses this alot in her thick Donegal accent and it's pretty funny.
Mañana - Tomorrow and also morning in Spanish. I love how it means both.
Bally - Old Irish for settlement, said like "BAH-Le" not "Ball-Le". Tons of towns or villages have in their name, some sound a bit silly like Ballybogey or Ballymoney.
Rime - Frost in the air, just a cool word to describe that.

Not one of my favourites but Dobra is Polish for Okay and is also appartently a small village. It is also the currency in São Tomé and Príncipe. Didn't know either when I stole Dobra as my username.

current small selection

envelope
purloin
deem
exquisite
neidbau
koinonia
molecule
err
cirrus
legume

Antidisestablishmentarianism

goluigi: this feeling is called jamais vu

speaking of french, they call a ham melt (sandwich) a croque monsieur

Shuumatsu - Japanese for weekend.

At some point in my life I was learning Japanese and French at the same time. Usually, French tries to structure a French word for foreign concepts whenever possible (they even use the word octet for byte -8 bits-). Japanese, on the other hand, doesn't worry anymore and generally slaps an English word for non traditional Eastern concepts.

That said, French for weekend, is weekend; but they say le weekend (Pulp Fiction's Big Mac dialogue reference). Well, I immediately imagined that the Japanese word for it would be WIKKUENDO or something like that. But I was happy to know that they have their own word for those elusive two days ^^ .

simultaneously just learned 潔癖 keppeki and fastidious in english
https://youtu.be/K_wx8VYTln0

i like when i don’t know what either the english or the japanese is

favorite word in English: defenestration

has a lot of backstory and just sounds funny

favorite word in Nigerian Yoruba: wahala

it means unfathomably nonsense, in words that English cannot describe

favorite word in Spanish: Suavemente

The terminal montage bit made me laugh

favorite word in Latin:

I don't really have a favorite word, but... I do have a favorite sentence...

mater tui magna chunga est

i really like saying "peanut oil" its very fun to say

Shenanigans

Claire