What’s the most interesting word?

I was having a conversation earlier about good words (like with interesting meanings or just sound great!) with a teacher and I wondered what the oh so wise and mighty TSR community thought would be some interesting words!

We came up with:
-la fac (french meaning the university...no guesses why we picked that!)
-le talkie walkie (french meaning walkie talkie)

Can anyone else think of some (in any language)? :smile:

Reply 1

username3553182

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Talkie walkie... I wouldn't expect less from French :wink:

Uhhhhh I gotta rack my brain for this, I can only think of funny words and words I hate... you may as well hear those lol
trabajaba - I was working (Spanish) it just sounds so funny!
Choufleur is pretty funny, it means cauliflower in French :biggrin:

proveedor - provider (Spanish) - I don't know, the double e just makes me cringe lolol (this is one I hate :angry:

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I don't know why but I find Krankenwagen (ambulance - German) funny too lol and also a lot of other random German words, especially the long ones and my favourite GCSE saviour words when I have nothing to say - hilfsbereit and leidenschaftlich heheh
Yaourter - search it up :wink:

(French as you can see)
Spleen is weird, in English and French (but funny that it means different things in both languages)
I would say I have more but I can't think of any now haha, actually for Christmas a good friend gave me a book of cool words in loads of random languages so I could look at that lol

Bird.


puṣpadhūpagandhamālyavilepanacūrṇacīvaracchatradhvajaghaṇṭāpatākābhiḥ

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Reply 4

Toastiekid

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Original post by mundosinfin

Talkie walkie... I wouldn't expect less from French :wink:

Uhhhhh I gotta rack my brain for this, I can only think of funny words and words I hate... you may as well hear those lol
trabajaba - I was working (Spanish) it just sounds so funny!
Choufleur is pretty funny, it means cauliflower in French :biggrin:

proveedor - provider (Spanish) - I don't know, the double e just makes me cringe lolol (this is one I hate :angry:

)
I don't know why but I find Krankenwagen (ambulance - German) funny too lol and also a lot of other random German words, especially the long ones and my favourite GCSE saviour words when I have nothing to say - hilfsbereit and leidenschaftlich heheh
Yaourter - search it up :wink:

(French as you can see)
Spleen is weird, in English and French (but funny that it means different things in both languages)
I would say I have more but I can't think of any now haha, actually for Christmas a good friend gave me a book of cool words in loads of random languages so I could look at that lol

That book sounds awesome :biggrin:

So many great words lol

Reply 5

Toastiekid

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Original post by UWS

Bird.

Correct

Reply 6

Toastiekid

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I see

What does it mean though? :dontknow:

Jockstrap

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Original post by gjd800



puṣpadhūpagandhamālyavilepanacūrṇacīvaracchatradhvajaghaṇṭāpatākābhiḥ

Isn't code a language not a word? :ashamed2:

Reply 9

Toastiekid

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Original post by Ikeo

Jockstrap

Reply 10

Bulletzone

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Original post by UWS

Bird.

Not sure if Family guy reference or not......

Also the most interesting word is the phobia of long words -Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Reply 11

Toastiekid

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Original post by Bulletzone

Not sure if Family guy reference or not......

Also the most interesting word is the phobia of long words -Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

That's a good one :clap2:

Reply 12

gjd800

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Original post by Toastiekid

Isn't code a language not a word? :ashamed2:

I used a code box to stop the auto-separation of words every 32 characters or so. It's Sanskrit, it is many words functioning as one single word (more specifically, a closed compound).

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discombobulated

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Original post by gjd800

I used a code box to stop the auto-separation of words every 32 characters or so. It's Sanskrit, it is many words functioning as one single word (more specifically, a closed compound).

Oh okay

What does it say then?

Reply 15

tonedown

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Schweinefleisch - pork in German. Like swine flesh :biggrin:

Reply 16

Toastiekid

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Original post by s.m30

discombobulated

oooh yeah, it sounds lovely when you say it :music:

Reply 17

gjd800

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Original post by Toastiekid

Oh okay

What does it say then?

'Honoured by/with divine (declined in the inst. pl.) flags, bells, banners, protections, robes, aromatic powders and perfumes, and garlands of scented flowers'.