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Post by tzarine on Dec 17, 2020 0:48:19 GMT -5
xiuxiuejar
catalan for whisper
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Post by psw on Dec 17, 2020 14:22:36 GMT -5
tzarine - how are X and J pronounced in Catalan?
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Post by Phar Lap on Dec 17, 2020 14:59:34 GMT -5
Bag rage
Programmatic Specificity
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Post by tzarine on Dec 17, 2020 18:03:33 GMT -5
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Post by Phar Lap on Dec 18, 2020 18:14:06 GMT -5
Uxorious
Malarkey
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Post by tzarine on Dec 19, 2020 21:25:40 GMT -5
pronk teasel
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Post by groo on Dec 19, 2020 23:02:24 GMT -5
I am slowly coming to dislike the word "berijiklian".
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Dec 20, 2020 1:43:13 GMT -5
Wonder if you can teach autocorrect to change it to BinChicken?
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Dec 22, 2020 7:22:32 GMT -5
I’m not too keen on Palaszczuk either.
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Post by Phar Lap on Dec 22, 2020 14:59:16 GMT -5
Onkaparinga
Ngangkiparinga
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Post by tzarine on Dec 23, 2020 19:55:43 GMT -5
mariposa
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Post by Phar Lap on Dec 25, 2020 22:18:56 GMT -5
Pfefferkuchen Lebkuchen
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Post by vinnyd on Dec 26, 2020 15:38:49 GMT -5
The word for butterfly is a good word in most languages. "Butterfly" itself is a good word, and then there are: papillon, French farfalla, Italian Schmetterling, German farasha, Arabic parpar, Hebrew kelebek, Turkish The Scandinavian languages are the exception (IMHO), where they call it the summer bird, sommerfugl or similar.
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Post by tzarine on Dec 26, 2020 18:09:48 GMT -5
vinny
thanks for the list! butterfly is a most excellent word & butterflies are even better
mariposa was a street i walked on when i was growing up in la
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 26, 2020 19:13:14 GMT -5
I think it's fascinating that butterfly words in so many languages, even related languages, seem to be unique.
Portuguese is "borboleta" - nothing like the Spanish
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Post by ruthincanada on Dec 26, 2020 19:19:02 GMT -5
Hyperbole
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 26, 2020 19:28:35 GMT -5
To continue with my butterfly words obsession, if Google Translate is correct then the words for butterfly are even different in Finnish and Estonian! Which are super related! It's so interesting, I wanna know WHY
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Post by tzarine on Dec 27, 2020 17:04:34 GMT -5
butterfly in japanese バタフライ Batafurai
in chinese 蝴蝶 Húdié
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 27, 2020 18:29:05 GMT -5
"Batafurai" sounds like a Japanese-ation of the English word, so I'm betting there was an older one.
In Hindi I think it's "titli"
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 27, 2020 19:58:25 GMT -5
Also, kettle, which can refer to any of the following:
- something to boil water in - a group of raptors or vultures - a depression formed by a melting glacier or floodwater
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Post by tzarine on Dec 27, 2020 21:45:46 GMT -5
yes, liisa
choho is the other japanese word for butterfly
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Post by vinnyd on Dec 28, 2020 16:17:14 GMT -5
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Post by Liiisa on Dec 28, 2020 16:24:53 GMT -5
Ooooh vinny thank you! Neat to see that "lep" root in the Slavic words, huh.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Dec 28, 2020 19:31:42 GMT -5
Smetana is one of my favourite composers. Does his name mean sour cream?
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Post by tzarine on Dec 28, 2020 21:08:03 GMT -5
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Post by tzarine on Jan 9, 2021 1:57:56 GMT -5
papallona butterfly in catalan
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Post by tzarine on Jan 15, 2021 17:13:55 GMT -5
caliu warm in catalan
llumeneta firefly in catalan
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Post by Liiisa on Jan 15, 2021 20:48:01 GMT -5
To have a "toilette de chat" is to just wash up from the sink rather than having a shower or bath.
I learned this from a badly translated Tripadvisor review that told me that the treehouse B&B offered a bowl for your "cat toilet," and I had to know so I figured out how to get Tripadvisor to display in French.
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Post by tzarine on Jan 23, 2021 1:22:28 GMT -5
Chatear camões go bother someone else, bugger off
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Post by vinnyd on Jan 23, 2021 8:48:35 GMT -5
I got out my meat grinder yesterday for the first time in years and was reminded that I like the German word for it: Fleischwolf.
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