Hoody Posted September 23, 2016 Report Share Posted September 23, 2016 Sorry, I can not agree to "mom/dad" being the first word of everyone. Since every child is different things differ a little bit but the most important *first* word I know from mine is "cooky"! "Mom" comes later ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2016 ..... I saw my baby book recently .... pretty sure my first word is in it ..... now where did I put the book ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted September 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2016 Found it. My first word was "dog". Which of course is pronounced "goggie". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Steph Posted September 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2016 You know how sometimes people claim that some language or its alphabet has no vowels? That's the kind of statement which can sound really smart-@$$, or which can make the other person in the conversation sound smart-@$$ because they want to argue with it because _of course_ the language has vowels. Unless maybe it's a click language or something like that, it's got vowels. Butttttt ... I learned yesterday that not every language has an "alphabet". So, bear with me. "Alphabet" has an "alpha" and a "bet" -- vowels and consonants -- written _separately_. Some languages have a "syllabary" ... which presents entire syllables in one unit. So all the consonant and vowels sounds in the syllable are represented with one symbol. And the language has finite syllables you can piece together to speak it. AND ... the word which launched me into that lesson was "abugida". That's a type of syllabary. Abugida (noun): a kind of syllabary in which the vowel is changed by modifying the base consonant symbol, so that all the forms that represent a given consonant plus each vowel resemble one another. And here is a video which explains one abugida, the one for the Inuktitut language. This language has its symbols for its different consonants. And then the direction the symbol is written tells which vowel goes with it. So your consonant will point up or point to the left or point to the right. And that will tell you which of the three vowel possible vowel sounds goes with that consonant. So Ti, Ta and Tu all look alike -- it's all done with the symbol for the T ... but the T is spun around to tell you which vowel to use. So how is that for a word of the day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoody Posted September 27, 2016 Report Share Posted September 27, 2016 I am curious how an Inuktitut scrabble would look like. As far as I know the japanese Hiragana notation (I avoid using alphabet) is such a syllabic script. There are some more it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana Anyhow I just learned something new every day-ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Steph Posted September 28, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2016 iguanian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 etui https://www.pinterest.com/bettacorbellini/sewing-etui/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fentonacres Posted October 3, 2016 Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 My word for today (and probably for the next four months) is SNOW. Easy to remember.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 3, 2016 What a wonderful view. I LOVE snow ... I want to move north. Wisconsin is too far south for me. But hopefully snow will hold off this year. Have a little bit too much going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2016 I remember when I learned the name for the long sandwich which I now know as a "sub". I was about nine. It was fun to say the name of this exotic sandwich that my father bought us. But now I don't remember which name he called it. It was either "hero" or "hoagie". I think "hero". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdNargel Posted October 30, 2016 Report Share Posted October 30, 2016 "Jackhole"........ Don't ask BTW Hero is another name for a Sub and a Hoagie is a toasted Sub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted October 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2016 Thanks for the nuance there, Scott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted November 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2016 debunk Never thought about what the "bunk" was that the "de" was undoing. The "bunk" is bunkum, aka nonsense. "Debunk" is to refute nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted November 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2016 eruct ... another word for belch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted November 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2016 I got to use "piehole" today in Scrabble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2016 Autological An autological word is a word which describes itself. For example, "pentasyllabic" means having five syllables and it has five syllables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2016 Austria's word of the year: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/austrian-academics-choose-bundespraesidentenstichwahlwiederholungsverschiebung-word-of-year-election-a7466176.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2017 Sometimes I wonder if people make up words for these lists. I hope these are real. http://mentalfloss.com/article/28315/15-wonderful-words-no-english-equivalent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoody Posted February 3, 2017 Report Share Posted February 3, 2017 Some of them seem to be valid. Funny enough "Slampadato" is not in the italian dictionary. The "Iktsuarpok" I understand to be similar to impatience? Zhaghzhagh = Zähneklappern hope this does not make you Kummerspeck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted February 4, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 Thanks for reassuring me that these are real. Here's a good English word for you if you don't know it yet .... "smithereens". You familiar with that one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoody Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 Nice word - and new to me. My regnancy is more experienced with the 'doing': Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Steph Posted March 4, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2017 Many words today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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