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Posted 13 September 2010 - 17:20

View PostShirou, on 13 Sep 2010, 18:24, said:

View PostChyros, on 12 Sep 2010, 12:18, said:

I'm really hard-pressed to come up with a beautiful Dutch word :duh: .

xD I feel you. The words that I can think of in Dutch are actually all shared with english =O

For lulz I'd say Angstschreeuw for the funny reason that few here can probably pronounce it xD

In english I would go for pandemonium, a word for chaos in the organized form of all five vowels.


I think I could, but I have no way to write it here.

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As long as the dark foundation of our nature, grim in its all-encompassing egoism, mad in its drive to make that egoism into reality, to devour everything and to define everything by itself, as long as that foundation is visible, as long as this truly original sin exists within us, we have no business here and there is no logical answer to our existence.
Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
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Posted 13 September 2010 - 17:33

View PostChyros, on 13 Sep 2010, 14:59, said:

View Postscope, on 13 Sep 2010, 11:37, said:

And also Italian I believe. Latin languages much?

edit: i remembered Dragostea din Tei for some reason. Isn't Dragoste the word for love in Romanian?
That may be a verb. Romanian is a Romance language though, if I'm not mistaken.


I'm quite surprised you didn't pick Bier as your favorite word :duh:.
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Posted 13 September 2010 - 18:31

View Postscope, on 13 Sep 2010, 18:01, said:

View PostAlias, on 13 Sep 2010, 19:41, said:

Y isn't a vowel, fool.

Situationally it shares some properties with vowels but it is certainly not classified as a vowel in itself.

you forget that CJ is a frenchie :duh:

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Posted 13 September 2010 - 21:44

View PostAmdrial, on 13 Sep 2010, 19:33, said:

View PostChyros, on 13 Sep 2010, 14:59, said:

View Postscope, on 13 Sep 2010, 11:37, said:

And also Italian I believe. Latin languages much?

edit: i remembered Dragostea din Tei for some reason. Isn't Dragoste the word for love in Romanian?
That may be a verb. Romanian is a Romance language though, if I'm not mistaken.


I'm quite surprised you didn't pick Bier as your favorite word :duh:.
...:xD:!

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View PostAlias, on 13 Sep 2010, 19:41, said:

Y isn't a vowel, fool.

Situationally it shares some properties with vowels but it is certainly not classified as a vowel in itself.

you forget that CJ is a frenchie :xD:

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For lulz I'd say Angstschreeuw for the funny reason that few here can probably pronounce it xD
Indeed - most can't even remotely pronounce Chyros, let alone angstschreeuw 8| . Dutch has to be one of the coarsest-sounding languages around ;) .

Edited by Chyros, 13 September 2010 - 21:46.

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Posted 16 September 2010 - 01:31

Botulism.

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Posted 22 September 2010 - 00:54

View PostCJ, on 13 Sep 2010, 14:31, said:

View Postscope, on 13 Sep 2010, 18:01, said:

View PostAlias, on 13 Sep 2010, 19:41, said:

Y isn't a vowel, fool.

Situationally it shares some properties with vowels but it is certainly not classified as a vowel in itself.

you forget that CJ is a frenchie 8|

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God forbid that French considers h as a vowel as well.

Why in hell did I decide to take this as my foreign language escapes me. Too late stopping now though, second year in, and I need 2-4 years of a foreign language to get into a decent college.

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Posted 22 September 2010 - 01:13

Should've done Spanish or Mandarin, they'd actually be useful in real life.

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Posted 22 September 2010 - 02:00

View PostAlias, on 21 Sep 2010, 21:13, said:

Should've done Spanish or Mandarin, they'd actually be useful in real life.


Can't take Mandarin here sadly 8(

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Posted 22 September 2010 - 06:01

Can we get back ontopic please?

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As long as the dark foundation of our nature, grim in its all-encompassing egoism, mad in its drive to make that egoism into reality, to devour everything and to define everything by itself, as long as that foundation is visible, as long as this truly original sin exists within us, we have no business here and there is no logical answer to our existence.
Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
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Posted 22 September 2010 - 15:59

View PostR3ven, on 22 Sep 2010, 1:54, said:

View PostCJ, on 13 Sep 2010, 14:31, said:

View Postscope, on 13 Sep 2010, 18:01, said:

View PostAlias, on 13 Sep 2010, 19:41, said:

Y isn't a vowel, fool.

Situationally it shares some properties with vowels but it is certainly not classified as a vowel in itself.

you forget that CJ is a frenchie |8

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God forbid that French considers h as a vowel as well.

Why in hell did I decide to take this as my foreign language escapes me. Too late stopping now though, second year in, and I need 2-4 years of a foreign language to get into a decent college.

What on earth are you babbling about? H is not a vowel in French, and Y is a vowel in French, Spanish and Italian at least. Next time you'd better check what you're saying before making such posts 8|

As for the most beautiful word, well I don't see any beautiful word in Arabic, so I'll say a French one instead : Harmonie 8|

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Posted 22 September 2010 - 17:11

Ooh! I think I came up with a potentially somewhat beautiful Dutch word!

percolatorkoffie

Which is coffee made in a very old and outdated way.
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Posted 22 September 2010 - 21:04

View PostCJ, on 22 Sep 2010, 11:59, said:

View PostR3ven, on 22 Sep 2010, 1:54, said:

View PostCJ, on 13 Sep 2010, 14:31, said:

View Postscope, on 13 Sep 2010, 18:01, said:

View PostAlias, on 13 Sep 2010, 19:41, said:

Y isn't a vowel, fool.

Situationally it shares some properties with vowels but it is certainly not classified as a vowel in itself.

you forget that CJ is a frenchie |8

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God forbid that French considers h as a vowel as well.

Why in hell did I decide to take this as my foreign language escapes me. Too late stopping now though, second year in, and I need 2-4 years of a foreign language to get into a decent college.

What on earth are you babbling about? H is not a vowel in French, and Y is a vowel in French, Spanish and Italian at least. Next time you'd better check what you're saying before making such posts 8|

As for the most beautiful word, well I don't see any beautiful word in Arabic, so I'll say a French one instead : Harmonie 8|


Then why do you say "l'hiver" instead of "le hiver"? 8|

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Posted 22 September 2010 - 21:19

View PostR3ven, on 22 Sep 2010, 22:04, said:

View PostCJ, on 22 Sep 2010, 11:59, said:

View PostR3ven, on 22 Sep 2010, 1:54, said:

View PostCJ, on 13 Sep 2010, 14:31, said:

View Postscope, on 13 Sep 2010, 18:01, said:

View PostAlias, on 13 Sep 2010, 19:41, said:

Y isn't a vowel, fool.

Situationally it shares some properties with vowels but it is certainly not classified as a vowel in itself.

you forget that CJ is a frenchie |8

^ This



God forbid that French considers h as a vowel as well.

Why in hell did I decide to take this as my foreign language escapes me. Too late stopping now though, second year in, and I need 2-4 years of a foreign language to get into a decent college.

What on earth are you babbling about? H is not a vowel in French, and Y is a vowel in French, Spanish and Italian at least. Next time you'd better check what you're saying before making such posts 8|

As for the most beautiful word, well I don't see any beautiful word in Arabic, so I'll say a French one instead : Harmonie 8|


Then why do you say "l'hiver" instead of "le hiver"? 8|

That's because you don't pronounce the H in that word (I find it funny that it applies to the word I picked as well (harmonie))
You can't possibly think that pronouncing it "Le hiver" would sound natural. In fact, it was done to facilitate the pronunciation.

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I bet I could program an internet


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Posted 22 September 2010 - 21:55

View PostCJ, on 22 Sep 2010, 17:19, said:

View PostR3ven, on 22 Sep 2010, 22:04, said:

View PostCJ, on 22 Sep 2010, 11:59, said:

View PostR3ven, on 22 Sep 2010, 1:54, said:

View PostCJ, on 13 Sep 2010, 14:31, said:

View Postscope, on 13 Sep 2010, 18:01, said:

View PostAlias, on 13 Sep 2010, 19:41, said:

Y isn't a vowel, fool.

Situationally it shares some properties with vowels but it is certainly not classified as a vowel in itself.

you forget that CJ is a frenchie |8

^ This



God forbid that French considers h as a vowel as well.

Why in hell did I decide to take this as my foreign language escapes me. Too late stopping now though, second year in, and I need 2-4 years of a foreign language to get into a decent college.

What on earth are you babbling about? H is not a vowel in French, and Y is a vowel in French, Spanish and Italian at least. Next time you'd better check what you're saying before making such posts 8|

As for the most beautiful word, well I don't see any beautiful word in Arabic, so I'll say a French one instead : Harmonie 8|


Then why do you say "l'hiver" instead of "le hiver"? 8|

That's because you don't pronounce the H in that word (I find it funny that it applies to the word I picked as well (harmonie))
You can't possibly think that pronouncing it "Le hiver" would sound natural. In fact, it was done to facilitate the pronunciation.


Tell it to the U.S., the teachers here seem to think it's a vowel, just because it is silent.

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Posted 23 September 2010 - 05:50

BACK ON GODDAMN TOPIC!

I DON'T CARE ABOUT VOWELS OR FRENCH! BAD FS! VERY BAD!

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As long as the dark foundation of our nature, grim in its all-encompassing egoism, mad in its drive to make that egoism into reality, to devour everything and to define everything by itself, as long as that foundation is visible, as long as this truly original sin exists within us, we have no business here and there is no logical answer to our existence.
Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
- Vladimir Solovyov

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Posted 23 September 2010 - 07:55

View PostChyros, on 22 Sep 2010, 20:11, said:

Ooh! I think I came up with a potentially somewhat beautiful Dutch word!

percolatorkoffie

Which is coffee made in a very old and outdated way.

my grandfather had a percolator for coffee |8
Then Nestle invented Nescafé 8|
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Posted 23 September 2010 - 08:15

I've always found the word, cadavre, to be interesting, if not the subject.

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Posted 23 September 2010 - 09:22

"Cadavre" as in, "corpse"?

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As long as the dark foundation of our nature, grim in its all-encompassing egoism, mad in its drive to make that egoism into reality, to devour everything and to define everything by itself, as long as that foundation is visible, as long as this truly original sin exists within us, we have no business here and there is no logical answer to our existence.
Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
- Vladimir Solovyov

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Posted 23 September 2010 - 09:24

Yesh. And I find it an interesting word, over a beautiful one, as I said |8

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Posted 23 September 2010 - 09:44

Agreed, it certainly holds athmosphere, kinda like ancient, and illuminating.

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As long as the dark foundation of our nature, grim in its all-encompassing egoism, mad in its drive to make that egoism into reality, to devour everything and to define everything by itself, as long as that foundation is visible, as long as this truly original sin exists within us, we have no business here and there is no logical answer to our existence.
Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
- Vladimir Solovyov

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Posted 23 September 2010 - 10:23

I say it as pronounced in French so it feels alot more wuss like (Ca-da-vreuh)
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Posted 23 September 2010 - 15:19

In danish (where Kadavre is plural, Kadaver is singular) we pronounce it: Kah-da...da...oh screw this! Danish is impossible to describe.

I understand why people say it's the hardest language ever.

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As long as the dark foundation of our nature, grim in its all-encompassing egoism, mad in its drive to make that egoism into reality, to devour everything and to define everything by itself, as long as that foundation is visible, as long as this truly original sin exists within us, we have no business here and there is no logical answer to our existence.
Imagine a group of people who are all blind, deaf and slightly demented and suddenly someone in the crowd asks, "What are we to do?"... The only possible answer is, "Look for a cure". Until you are cured, there is nothing you can do.
And since you don't believe you are sick, there can be no cure.
- Vladimir Solovyov

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Posted 23 September 2010 - 16:31

View Postscope, on 23 Sep 2010, 11:23, said:

I say it as pronounced in French so it feels alot more wuss like (Ca-da-vreuh)

Agreed, that word is as boring as a Monday morning :|

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Posted 23 September 2010 - 16:44

Stupendous, thats a cool word.
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Posted 23 September 2010 - 16:49

View PostSquigPie, on 24 Sep 2010, 1:19, said:

In danish (where Kadavre is plural, Kadaver is singular) we pronounce it: Kah-da...da...oh screw this! Danish is impossible to describe.

I understand why people say it's the hardest language ever.
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