Favourite words

anathema

Thanks to Steamboat28 for using it in another thread.

My three submissions to this thread are:

• saudade
• the dreaded "c-word"
• "cellar door"

Palingenesis
Cockatrice
Wyvern
Solve et Coagula

Adding a few...

Nebulous
Skugga
Djupa

Onomatopoeia

and

Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitänswittwenrente (German for widow's pension of a Danube steamboat captain's widow)

Ausgezeichnet

And then of course, there are various German classics:

- Zeitgeist
- Schadenfreude
- Hintergedanke
- Waldsterben

Exzellent.
Jo.
Beschissen.
Passt.
Normgrößenraumschiffantriebsteuerungsthermometeretikettierungsbeauftragtengewerkschaftsvorsitzendenmittagspausenbrotaufstrichkontrolleursbarometerdruckresistenz.
Yeah, we use those long words around here all the time.

It's the resistance to pressure of a barometer that belongs to the controller of the spread on the lunch of the president of the union of the guys in charge of putting the proper labels on the thermometers used in controlling the drives on a normed starship. Because, in Germany, we norm everything.

My favourite English word? I choose Piracy.

I know this is cornie

Health Happiness Prosperity

Cranes stand amidst cut husks
gleaning corn.

Alan




(Say aloud.)