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تعارف (ta’arof) it is.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/talk-like-an-iranian/309056/
Klabusterbeeren
Klabusterbeeren are “berries” out of cotton and hair, which you can only harvest from your ass crack.
Also known as Winterkirschen (winter cherries).We call those Clag nuts or Dangle berries.
I’m heard dingle berries, dingle like single
I’d like to add the longest German one-syllable word: schleichst
Worcestershire
This question has me bumfuzzled…
Weirdest
Ya can’t beat a superlative is what I always say.
except with a hyperlative
Or a super-duperlative.
skookum. It’s borrowed from, like, old Aboriginal trade language. It means “deal’s done” - with its own hand-brushing gesture - but it also means “strong” or “resilient”, I think.
And now it’s almost a common ‘Canadianism’ – if your Newfie buddy says " 'At’s a skookum blow we gots, b’iys", you know there’s a sad BC Ferry-tale on the way, and you’re not getting Over tonight.
Moist, I just can’t stand it.
Stop calling me Moist.
Fustigate and discombobulate are a couple of my faves.
In English, it has to be any of the Contronyms. We have so many, and it really makes it hard for newer speakers to understand some things.
You dust a cake by added powder, you dust a table by removing powder.
You seed a field by adding seeds, you seed a fruit by removing the seeds.Cleave is my personal favorite
Almost as good as Greater Cleave
I hear that when a greater cleave consumes enough souls it becomes a Cleave Lord.
Seeded is, indeed, the most worthless of adjectives.
My poppy seed bagel has entered the chat…
Seeded is, indeed, the most worthless of adjectives.
… until someone uses ‘literally’ as an adjective; and in that moment you are enlightened.
Shelled and unshelled both also mean unshelled and shelled, respectively
am seltsamsten
English speakers always seem to like mierenneuken: nitpicking, or literally, ant-fucking.
Or maybe fokker, meaning breeder (and a famous last name; and speaking of names, we have first names such as Fokko and Fokje).
The word ‘weird’ is pretty weird.
It has a weird & witchy history.
I like the idea that Shakespeare was looking for some uncommon word and remembered hearing ‘weird’ and running with it.
Thanks.
Flammable, Imflammble, and Inflammable.
“imflammable” is not a word.
It is - though it may be fair to consider it jargon. It is a word that explicitly means “Can be set aflame” as chosen by people working with hazardous materials.
Even jargon can be found in a dictionary.
it is if you try hard enough
Inflammable and flammable mean the same thing? What a country!
Those burn me up!
Ooops, time for my meds…
It’s not weird, and it’s not my first language, but “equivocado” is one of the funnest words to say in the world.
i always think of avocados when i see it
… You’re wrong :)
