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Warp wrote:
>>> Double entendre is quite common speech, IMO.
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>> Again, how do you even pronounce such a word?
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> You'll have to ask a French-speaking people for that.
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> Examples of other commonly-used words loaned into English from French,
> and which can be quite difficult to pronounce for someone who has never
> heard them: genre, lingerie, entrepreneur, facade.
Hell, I *still* don't know how to pronounce genre! ;-)
[And lingerie is just hard to physically utter. Still, not something I'm
ever likely to need to do...]
>> I guessed that "platonic" would be something to do with regular solids.
>
> Ever heard of platonic love?
Yes. I never knew what it meant though.
Actually there are lots of words I've heard and wondered what they
meant. [Obviously I can't think of a single example *right now*...]
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On 22 Apr 2008 06:41:30 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tag povrayorg> wrote:
>Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> > "Barista" is rather easy to guess, especially if you know Spanish
>> > (like I do).
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>> Any hints on how to pronounce it?
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> I suppose you pronounce it approximately in the same way as a Spanish
>would.
Or Italian, but that is really not helpful, as I'm sure you know ;)
Try Bar-eas-ta (eas as in Easter)
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:25:27 +0200, "Gilles Tran"
<gitran_nospam_@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
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>This from a guy who *** lives *** with his dear mom :P
Below the belt!
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Stephen
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Invisible wrote:
> http://blog.orphi.me.uk/archives/268
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> How many of these words can *you* figure out, without looking them up?
Barista: Don't know this one. Possibly either a Spanish term for a
lawyer, or a resident of a Hispanic ghetto.
harlot: A prostitute.
altruistic: Holding a moral code that make others primary over the self.
misanthopic: Hating humans.
lush: (1) adj. harboring great quantities of life, esp. plant life.
(2) n. a person given to excessive alcohol consumption.
sass: (1) vt. to regard with less than due reverence. (2) n. The
state or quality of spirited disregard for authority.
Oedipus complex: n. A romantic attraction towards ones own parent of
the opposite sex.
defenstration: one of many incorrect spellings of defenestration.
defenestration: the act of defenestrating.
defenestration: seriously, the act of ejecting another person or thing
from a building through a window of said edifice.
double entendre: A joke based on a double meaning of a word or phrase.
Example: "How do you hang the wallpaper designed by David Bowie? It
doesn't matter, it goes both ways."
MILF: Acronym of Mother I'd Like to Fuck
codependent: n. Persons, usually family members, who are affected by
another person's addiction to gambling, alcohol and/or other drugs,
etc., whose behavior is theorized to detract from the addict's efforts
to escape their addiction.
burro: From the Spanish word for donkey. There may be a slang meaning
of which I am unaware.
heinous: Despicable, horrid, worthy of contempt.
lascivious: adj. tending towards an overly sexual manner.
florid: (1) adj. of clothing, having a prominent floral pattern. (2)
of verbal communication, being exceptionally or excessively garnished.
morose: depressed
hickey: n. A minor injury caused by applying oral suction to a small
area of skin, usually on the neck.
platonic: adj. having no sexual or romantic basis or aspect, such as "a
platonic relationship"
effeminate: adj. of males, having or exhibiting qualities and/or
behaviors that are typical of the female sex.
canteloupe: The window's locked.
canteloupe: Seriously, a fruit with a rough tannish rind and a
orange-colored flesh.
ungulate: n. The group of animals, generally mammalian, which walk on
the tips of the digits of the feet.
carafe: n. A wide-mouthed container, used for storing and serving
liquid drinks.
misogynist: A person who dislikes women.
reprehensible: despicable, worthy of condemnation.
catharsis: From a Greek word meaning "cleansing," the act of releasing
emotional and psychological stresses.
epiphany: A sudden realization of a previously unmarked truth.
emancipation: The act of being freed, typically from slavery.
sapphic: adj. (From the name Sappho, a Greek poetess who addressed
romantic poems to other women) of or relating to creative works which
express romantic or sexual desire of women for other women.
Looks like I only missed one completely, and may not be sure of another.
Regards,
John
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:56:36 -0400, John VanSickle
<evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>florid: (1) adj. of clothing, having a prominent floral pattern. (2)
>of verbal communication, being exceptionally or excessively garnished.
You can also have a florid complexion as in ruddy.
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Hell, I *still* don't know how to pronounce genre! ;-)
Watch this, and you'll know: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STxppluW_G0
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Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
> Examples of other commonly-used words loaned into English from French,
> and which can be quite difficult to pronounce for someone who has never
> heard them: genre, lingerie, entrepreneur, facade.
OTOH, sometimes even "native" words are hard to pronounce, even to
natives. One example which comes to mind is worcestershire sauce.
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On 22 Apr 2008 08:50:19 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
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> OTOH, sometimes even "native" words are hard to pronounce, even to
>natives. One example which comes to mind is worcestershire sauce.
Don't remind me :)
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Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> On 22 Apr 2008 08:50:19 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
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>> OTOH, sometimes even "native" words are hard to pronounce, even to
>> natives. One example which comes to mind is worcestershire sauce.
>
> Don't remind me :)
...let's all discuss this over a drink in a pub near Leicester Square :-)
John
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On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:14:08 +0100, Doctor John <doc### [at] gmailcom>
wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
>> On 22 Apr 2008 08:50:19 -0400, Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
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>>> OTOH, sometimes even "native" words are hard to pronounce, even to
>>> natives. One example which comes to mind is worcestershire sauce.
>>
>> Don't remind me :)
>...let's all discuss this over a drink in a pub near Leicester Square :-)
>
Sounds good to me :)
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