Your favourite English words?

[Gość: axxolotl]

What are youf favourite English words?
Mine are:
lullaby (it just sounds so nice :) )
discombobulate (I actually heard J. Roberts use it once in an interview)
bamboozle (often used in Indian English)

[Gość: Hmm.....]

My favorite is - FUBAR - F...ed up beyond all recognition. Oh, wait, that's an
acronym. Sorry. Oh, but wait, I have another one - KISS - keep it simple STUPID.
Have a great day!

[Gość: Pollack]

PEOPLE

[Gość: Ania]

thanks to their beautiful sounds- ocean, horizon and zealous

[domi7]

my favourite word is the "friend" - I use it extremely often, maybe that's the
reason

[kicior99]

my favourites:
twat
smut
grub
flabbergasting
skive

[jan.kulczyk]

gerrymandering
perfunctory
je-ne-sais-quoi

if I remember any other, I'll keep you posted for sure

[ja.robot]

surely you mean money, Jan?
:)

[jan.kulczyk]

> surely you mean money, Jan?
> :)


Yesssssss.... I rememberrr... cash, bread, dough, cabbage, lettuce, jacks, plaster, rhino, bacon, greenbacks, moolah!!! You name it..
Yeah! My preciousssss...!

Thank you!

[kicior99]

ostatnio doszedl yob

[coolaga1]

rumpy pumpy

[Gość: Nemo]

marvelous :)

[Gość: yorick]

That'll be plenty... only I can't remember all of them now :)

flabbergasted is one of them, OK,
and diurnal, too, cause I was once afraid of that word, having no idea how to
pronounce it.
I like 'stance' (very useful), and 'incidentally'.
I can't say I don't like twat, either :).
rgdz

PS: More are to come :)

[eirinn]

havoc - a strong word and nice perfume from Body Shop

[jan.kulczyk]

> That'll be plenty... only I can't remember all of them now :)
>
> flabbergasted is one of them, OK,
> and diurnal, too, cause I was once afraid of that word, having no idea how to
> pronounce it.
> I like 'stance' (very useful), and 'incidentally'.
> I can't say I don't like twat, either :).
> rgdz

Incidentally, (sic!) I happened to fall in love with a word "fuckass". Donnie Darko fans out there will know what I refer to.. ;) Anyway, all lines in the scene is absolutely hysterical. I laughed my <insert body part> off.

[jan.kulczyk]

Of course "all lines ARE"
Why was my previous post removed?

[Gość: Nobullshit]

Several i latest - I miss not having them in Polish.
Especially "latest".

[yoric]

'Equally', esp. in 'but, equally...' is by far my favourite one.
and a bunch o foreign words or phrases that impart some (admittedly,
artificial) learnedness without being too pretentious, like e.g. 'bona fide'
or 'per se'.
rdgz

[jan.kulczyk]

Speaking of "bona fide", the dialogue between George Clooney's convict character and his wife and daughter in Coens' "Brother Where Art Thou" absolutely blew me away.

- "I am the only daddy you got. I am the damn pater familias."
- "But you ain't bona fide."

and later

- "Vernon's got prospects.|He's bona fide. What are you?"
- "I'll tell you what I am...I'm the pater familias,|and you can't marry him!"

[jan.kulczyk]

> Several i latest

Several to kilka.

Mnie brakuje za to słów "kilkanaście" i "kilkadziesiąt" w angielskim.
Dozen jest wieloznaczny, dozen or so niezgrabny a several dozen w ogóle od czapy.

tens and teen can be used

[Gość: pikus]

[yoric]

Oh, boy...

Another one...
rgdz

[agawka2]

bumblebee - trzmiel

[ja.robot]

exterminate! exterminate! :)

ok - another one '- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ' ??? How many ways are
there to spell that?! And who made it up??!!!

I remember when hearing it for the first time, I thought that my parents must
be insane to be making me learn a language with such ridiculous words in it!!!!

[jan.kulczyk]

'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious '

Get out!!

[jan.kulczyk]

Still, I believe it was a smart move - teach a kid Mary Poppins English.
Once you get through that, what else can they throw at you that you can't take? ;))

My TOP2

[Gość: Yorick]

My top 2:

- equally (as a sentence connective: "but equally")
- effectively (in the sense "actually", "in reality")

Truly beautiful words, true little gems of language.

rgdz
PS: The list may change!

[chris-joe]

awe...
just one prolonged vowel, yet so... awesome?

sorry, didn't hear you...?

[Gość: Yorick]

sorry, didn't hear you...?

You said your favourite word was "or" or "ore"?


;)))
rgdz

[jan.kulczyk]

Well, I suppose chris-joe must now figure out whether likening him to a pommie is or is not an insult.

[Gość: a geezer]

geezer
disembarkation
div

[Gość: pervert]

My favourite word in English is...SEX

[Gość: nauczyciel]

Jan Kulczyk - here's your lesson:
kilkanascie - over ten ...
kilkadziesiat - tens of ...
this is how they use it in my country (which is English speaking)
cheers

[jan.kulczyk]

> Jan Kulczyk - here's your lesson:
> kilkanascie - over ten ...
> kilkadziesiat - tens of ...
> this is how they use it in my country (which is English speaking)
> cheers

I beg to differ. Tens of isn't bad. I forgot to mention this. Still, it's not so neat as kilkadziesiat. But over ten is just plain dumb. 17 is over ten and 235403 is over ten too. Where's the logic?

[Gość: bez czepialstwa]

and "235430 of sth" is "23543 tens of sth",
the logic is where something becomes accustomed in language, innit?

[Gość: axxolotl]

kilkanascie - anywhere from ten to twenty :)

[Gość: easy]

anymany from ten to tweny ;-)

[mahabharata]

mine's a giggle (the sound actually ;)

[gwendal]

Serendipity - sounds funny and has a funny meaning.

Gwendal

[szczesliwawa]

mine are tomb and womb... that they sound sooo... geee... deep? with the
meaning behind just to add up some flavor...

[Gość: olo]

phat - pronounced as "fat", meaning "cool"
e.g. This chick is phat - meaning - this girl is nice looking.

[Gość: jh]

because

[Gość: baska]

"hustle and bustle"

rich, young and healthy

[Gość: me]