In any language, any one of us has certain words or phrases they like to say.
For me, in English, that includes “bedazzled” and “thingamagick” among others.
Howrver, is there some kind of overarching expression for these words? I can’t think of anything in English or my native German, and a quick Internet search didn’t find anything.
- Deebster ( @Deebster@lemmy.ml ) 18•2 months ago
I can’t find a suitable word in English, but I’m shocked and dismayed that German doesn’t have anything we could steal.
- Björn Tantau ( @bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ) 20•2 months ago
No problem. Just make one up!
Sprechspaßwort = speak fun word
Alternatively Sprachspaßwort, meaning language fun word.
I think I like the latter.
- 667 ( @667@lemmy.radio ) English4•2 months ago
This is the real value of agglutinative languages. We sort of try it in English but it doesn’t always work. I don’t speak German, but I recognize the word roots.
- dfyx ( @dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de ) 3•2 months ago
Sprachspaßwort sounds like something straight out of a law or industry standard which I guess that makes it heterological.
- janNatan ( @janNatan@lemmy.ml ) 18•2 months ago
We could always make one up. Zungenfreude, tongue joy.
Der Spruch „Vielseitig” hat mir immer Zungenfreude bereitet.
Saying “versatile” always gave me tongue-joy.
Edit: it’s pronounced “tsoong-en-froy-duh”
- Chozo ( @Chozo@fedia.io ) 2•2 months ago
Spaßredewort.
- frightful_hobgoblin ( @frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ) 17•2 months ago
euphone
I love that, will use it. Thanks!
- frightful_hobgoblin ( @frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ) 8•2 months ago
They’ve also been called “cellar doors”, as when Tolkein said “in Welsh, for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent”
- Admetus ( @Admetus@sopuli.xyz ) 5•2 months ago
Feel like this is an indirect reference to Donnie Darko.
- frightful_hobgoblin ( @frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 months ago
This is your brain on pop culture.
- pruwyben ( @pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•2 months ago
Tolkien was known to be a big Donnie Darko fan.
- Diddlydee ( @Diddlydee@feddit.uk ) English11•2 months ago
Definitely ‘Euphonic’ meaning ‘sounds good’.
- Admetus ( @Admetus@sopuli.xyz ) 7•2 months ago
I love the word ‘kerfuffle’.
- R... ( @ff0000@lemmy.ml ) English6•2 months ago
Can’t think of a word, but want to add ‘automagically’ to that list.
- aninnymoose ( @aninnymoose@lemm.ee ) 5•2 months ago
I don’t speak Spanish but I love the word “El sacapuntas” which sounds like a bad word but means pencil sharpener.
- ValiantDust ( @ValiantDust@feddit.org ) 5•2 months ago
I can’t think of any.
But I’m a bit sad that the French-originating Bonmot is already taken in German (meaning a witty one-liner). It would have been a nice allusion to Bonbon (candy), like words that taste nice.
- apotheotic (she/her) ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) English5•2 months ago
If earworms are things that you hear that get stuck in your head, perhaps this could be “mouthworms”. Sounds delightful I hate it.
- HamsterRage ( @HamsterRage@lemmy.ca ) 4•2 months ago
“Intercourse!”
- plumcreek ( @plumcreek@lemmy.ml ) English3•2 months ago
A perfectly woody sort of word!
- HamsterRage ( @HamsterRage@lemmy.ca ) 3•2 months ago
Thank God somebody got it.
- plumcreek ( @plumcreek@lemmy.ml ) English3•2 months ago
Thither
It’s just so fun to say.
- demoman ( @demoman@lemmy.one ) English2•2 months ago
Serendipity
- Philote ( @Philote@lemmy.ml ) 2•2 months ago
Wouldn’t it be a catch phrase?
- Drusas ( @Drusas@kbin.run ) 2•2 months ago
Shabushabu
- MeetInPotatoes ( @MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml ) English1•2 months ago
Joycabulary.
- Dark_Dragon ( @Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•2 months ago
Lickspit