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Originally Posted by derwipok
What's your favorite word?
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Originally Posted by derwipok
qf easy question you can answer while distracted
It isn't easy at all. For me the language is so cool and so important that I don't take it lightly.
Beautiful world, useful word, what? Epicurus has noted that my signature word on POG on seems to be
arguendo. I like
quintessence today, but that's temporary.
There are a number of words I like mostly because I know I use them correctly — an example would be
comprise (which most people screw up, meaning
compose instead).
By the way, someone else asked about languages. I speak some Italian and some German, but not enough of either to sound terribly intelligent in them. I had one class each in Spanish and French but recall none of them. Of course I spoke Portuguese when I lived in Brazil, but that was thirty-odd years ago and I remember only a few words.