I am a weird, strange person.
After all, how many teenagers you know is eager to learn new words and, upon spying one, tell what language it originated from?
No one?
Oh, I am one.
I saw the word 'impresario' in 1100 words, and thought, 'Ooh! This baby has gotta orginate from Italtian or vulgar latin!" and I was right.
1746, from It. impresario "operatic manager," lit. "undertaker (of a business)," from impresa "undertaking," fem. of impreso, pp. of imprendere "undertake," from V.L. imprendere, from L. in- "onto" + prehendere "to grasp" (see prehensile).
The above is from the ubiquitous dictionary.com. Boy I love that site, along with its comrade, thesaurus.com.
I finished One week's worth of work in fifteen minutes. I shall persist in my goal to complete the whole goddamned book by the end of this holiday!!! ROAR!
...Where is my flute teacher anyway?
Oh, and BTW, seeing as what I'm gonna say next pertains to this post, my favourite word now is 'evanesce'.
It probably originates from Latin, as I remember 'evanesco' used as a spell when Hermione cleaned Potter's cauldron at an inopportune time. And JK Rowling, being (quite) an unoriginal twit, used latin. Ah well. At least it's better than rhymes.
And my favourite foul word right now....
...
No, it's not the four letter F word used to describe having very passionate sex. Though I've come to terms in using it. It's (we're talking about 'fuck') really such a powerful word, and when you use it, it has very high emotive power (useful in pieces expressing petty anger). It's a
fascinating word, really. I mean, so many uses! One to describe having ***, use it in form of petty anger, use it to express sorrow or disconsolation, use it in the dialogue of an uncultured man in the streets, use it to express the humanity and vulnerability of people (when they crack, you don't expect them to be nice and calm with flowery words do ya?) , and also as a crass-worthy insult!
I think I'm thinking too much into it. Into words, that is.
Oh, I do realise I've deviated a little, so I'll just cut the chase and tell you what my favourite foul word is.
It's none other than 'nigger', one which I found out accidentally whem trying to type 'snigger' into cbox and found that they censored everything but the 's' of the word.
My great discovery. Oh, and did you know that 'To Kill A Mockingbird' has 'nigger' mentioned at least 48 times? Some bum in the education department tried to ban it once because of the foul words little kid shouldn't see. Too bad they failed.
Now that I've corrupted every one of your young (maybe not so) innocent minds, I can go back to my 1100 words and start working on the Chinese holiday homework.
Evanesce! Evanesce!
I think I may be kooky.
