sbrothy
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As you can guess im pretty bored!
What are some of the most esoteric words you've used in either speech or writing recently? I figure a good deal of you have some pretty hardcore ones what with your technical specializations and all....
As I'm from Denmark I have very few peers I can talk to. Also, you'd probably laugh if you heard me talk. Not that my Danish accent is that bad, mind, but instantly noticable of course. Also I stutter. Not really bad but still some. Sometimes I cringe when I hear our politicians talk Danglish, but since I've picked up my English vocabulary mostly from books, I'm probably putting emphasis (or accentuation whatever the right term is), on the wrong syllables in a lot of cases. Just off the top of my head.....
bellicose
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offal
What are some of the most esoteric words you've used in either speech or writing recently? I figure a good deal of you have some pretty hardcore ones what with your technical specializations and all....
As I'm from Denmark I have very few peers I can talk to. Also, you'd probably laugh if you heard me talk. Not that my Danish accent is that bad, mind, but instantly noticable of course. Also I stutter. Not really bad but still some. Sometimes I cringe when I hear our politicians talk Danglish, but since I've picked up my English vocabulary mostly from books, I'm probably putting emphasis (or accentuation whatever the right term is), on the wrong syllables in a lot of cases. Just off the top of my head.....
bellicose
suzerainty
stereoisomerism
adiabatic
offal