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RE: your most favorite words - Schazer - 03-21-2016
A word that has the conversational breeziness-equivalent of "pants" but is closer in definition to "trousers"
RE: your most favorite words - ICan'tGiveCredit - 03-21-2016
(03-21-2016, 03:13 AM)Schazer Wrote: »A word that has the conversational breeziness-equivalent of "pants" but is closer in definition to "trousers"
BLOOMERS
PANTS. THAT EXPLODE LIKE FLOWERS.
RE: your most favorite words - Gatr - 03-21-2016
Imperturbable
RE: your most favorite words - OTTO - 03-21-2016
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RE: your most favorite words - Schazer - 03-24-2016
yawnsome
RE: your most favorite words - a52 - 03-24-2016
A word that means "The most French that something can possibly be"
RE: your most favorite words - Justice Watch - 04-01-2016
Prestidigitation
Preen
Mauve
Ethanol
RE: your most favorite words - Schazer - 04-06-2016
sphenic
RE: your most favorite words - chimericgenderbeast - 04-15-2016
velocipedestrienne
RE: your most favorite words - Kaynato - 04-21-2016
厽
囧
亻亍
Jalopy
Effervescence
Polyptoton
Simplexity
㡭
RE: your most favorite words - Reyweld - 04-24-2016
Joyeux and Merveilleux
RE: your most favorite words - PKBT - 04-24-2016
he*ck
RE: your most favorite words - Solekii - 04-24-2016
sleep
RE: your most favorite words - Gatr - 04-24-2016
callipygian has to go here, if nobody's said it yet
Callipygian - having shapely buttocks (merriam webster)
RE: your most favorite words - Justice Watch - 04-24-2016
i had a moment of sudden appreciation for the word "y'all." It's a beautiful, one-syllable contraction for a phrase that is otherwise awkward and takes multiple syllables to write/say.
RE: your most favorite words - a52 - 04-24-2016
but it just sounds so... texan
RE: your most favorite words - Justice Watch - 04-24-2016
That's the irony of it. It's so eloquent, yet brash. Like a geode of slang and utility.
RE: your most favorite words - Solekii - 04-24-2016
I dunno, people say it in Alberta. Then again, Alberta is basically Canada's texas
Regardless, I use it too sometimes
RE: your most favorite words - Dragon Fogel - 04-24-2016
I'm in Edmonton and I've never heard it, maybe that's just Edmonton though.
RE: your most favorite words - Solekii - 04-24-2016
I lived in Calgary so maybe it's a calgarian thing?
RE: your most favorite words - SleepingOrange - 04-25-2016
Y'all occupies a largely otherwise unfilled niche in English. I like having it around and using it, cultural preconceptions about people from the south be damned.
RE: your most favorite words - Solekii - 04-25-2016
Capybara is a good word. Good name for a friend-shaped rodent. In fact, the word itself seems friend-shaped.
RE: your most favorite words - OTTO - 04-25-2016
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RE: your most favorite words - btp - 04-25-2016
Now that I think about it, I use "guys" as the second person plural.
For instance, when addressing a classroom I typically say "Okay guys," as opposed to "Alright, y'all" or "Now, Everyone".
"Y'all" for whatever reason feels too colloquial, with "Everyone" feeling too formal when addressing a group of students.
RE: your most favorite words - Solekii - 04-25-2016
'Guys' is a good word. Not too formal, and it's generally accepted to mean any group of people. It's also more personal, like something you'd say in reference to your friends or people you know relatively well, so it doesn't feel distant.