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What are your favorite words? They can be any language.

My favorites:

In English:
Kakistocracy
Defenestration
Tintinnabulation

In Deutsch:
Geschirrspülmaschine (weil es soviel Spaß ist zu sagen)

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"As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it." --Albert Einstein
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machicolation
semiglobular
intercolumnation
sustentacular
xiphoid

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Überraschung des Dosenöffners!
"On guard, you musty sofa!"
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Nice, I had to look up machicolation and sustentacular.

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"As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it." --Albert Einstein
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Do they have to be real words? I enjoy using 'irregardless', mostly to annoy English majors. Can't think of any others off the top of my head, though I do have them. Mostly it's favourite names, like Humphrey Bogart. Antidisestablishmentarianism will have to do for the time being.

EDIT: How could I forget 'yclept'?

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"Groggy" is a fun word to say. Groggy, groggy, groggy, groggy, groggy, groggy, groggy, groggy, groggy, grog-
- Elan (OotS)

[ Sunday, April 23, 2006 09:32: Message edited by: Dintiradan ]
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aardvark
yperite
mastication
cymotrichous
bubo
gemutlich

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Guaranteed to blow your mind.

Frostbite: Get It While It's...... Hot?
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Yeah I would prefer real words, but pretty much anything goes, this is the Spidweb forums.

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"As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it." --Albert Einstein
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"Posting game" is two words that aren't my favorite. This is very close.

—Alorael, who likes most words. Words are often very nice. Overspecialized words are even better, as are unnecessary bits of jargon.
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Oh come on Alorael.
This can help us all to expand our vocabularies.
It's for the children.

EDIT: I misspelled Alorael's name. *gasp*

[ Sunday, April 23, 2006 09:35: Message edited by: Wild Kinky Slugs ]

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Bathos.
Defenestration.
Irony.
Oxygen.
Phlegm.
Rhythm.
Spleen.

Dikiyoba.
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Some of my favourite words:
tiddlywinks
genuflect
floccinaucinihilipilification
sinecure
spanghew
grey
:D

[ Sunday, April 23, 2006 14:57: Message edited by: Erika Maroonmark ]

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A C, an E-flat, and a G walk into the Tower of the Magi.
Ambrin walks up to them and says, "Hey! It's the Triad!"
Kelner snorts and says, "Pretty minor Triad if you ask me."
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Llama.
Duck.
Cheese. :D

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fox
vixen
tod
wolf
yip
murr
spatial
paw
tail
fur

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I'm drunk as think as you not am I.
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Anathema

Favorite hangman word: Phlegm
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Strengthlessness. I just love using that word in Hangman.
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Avernum

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"Inspiration comes from hard work" -Charles Baudelaire.
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Assassination.

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The Knight Between Posts.
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You just like writing ass as many times as possible.

EDIT: Typos.

[ Sunday, April 23, 2006 19:07: Message edited by: radix malorum est cupiditas ]

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I like the sssssss part.

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The Knight Between Posts.
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Except that there are only four S's.

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Random
Randomness
Causality
Halfling
Microcavity
Nonlinear
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Dodecahedron<---all time fav.

Sabotage
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My favorite Polish word so far is biznesmenka. It is derived from biznesmen ("businessman"), with a feminine suffix stuck on the end. It just strikes me as a little ridiculous. I'm also fond of parkowa&#x107 ("to park"). Also g&#x142upi, which is pronounced GWU-pi, which means "stupid" and sounds like it, too.

In German, any monosyllabic word with a long ü in it is great, just because I am so fond of the close front rounded vowel /y/. Also words with five or more syllables.

In Spanish, all of my favorite words are dirty. (Thanks, dear.)

In Greek, my favorite word is &#x3B4&#x3B9&#x3B1&#x3C6&#x3B8&#x3AD&#x3C1&#x3C9, which is what Socrates was accused of doing to the youth. It means "I corrupt" (classical verbs were referenced by their first-person singular, rather than their infinitive), but the "dia" prefix is the preposition "through" — it's corrupting something utterly, all the way through it, completely to the core.

In Latin, my favorite words are fas and nefas, referring to things that are cosmically right and wrong, respectively.

In English, my favorite word is "diagonalizable," because it is excessive. So is "eigenfunction."

EDIT: Oh, and I'm fond of the German word doch, a negative answer to a negative statement/question: "Du hast kein Buch." "Doch." ("You don't have a book." "No[, I do].")

[ Sunday, April 23, 2006 21:34: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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In Hebrew, "et" is a great word. It's the best linguistic intron I've ever encountered

Spanish has many wonderful words, especially those borrowed from the Aztecs.

—Alorael, who loves encountering words in other languages that express something much more difficult to express in English. He then tries to refrain from using them constantly (and meaninglessly) in conversations with with English speakers and often fails spectacularly.
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Contraption
Entrapment
All Australian rhyming slang.

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I'll put a Spring in your step.
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Guazzabuglio
baldracca :D
Google
SpiderWebSoftware :D
supercagifragilistichespiralitoso :D

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