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[42itous]

What are your favorite words? Is it because of their meaning, or their sounds, or connotations, or images they bring to mind?

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[light_of_summer]

After thinking and thinking about this, I'm not sure I have favorite words. If I do, my mind doesn't seem to have them indexed under that concept.

The closest I can come is that there are a few phrases in languages other than English that just sound cool to me, or are fun to say, e.g.:

"Entschuldigen Sie mir" ("Excuse me" in German)

"Go raibh maith agat" ("Thank you" in Irish, pronounced as in this YouTube clip: https://youtu.be/8QlDZ-ZiU90)

"Papá pon pan para Pepín Pipón" (a Spanish tongue-twister I learned circa 1972, in 7th grade Spanish class, roughly "Papa serves bread to Pepín Pipón"—the Internet seems to have a different version of this one, without "Pipón" but almost twice as long)

I do have favorite punctuation—I am a big fan of em dashes, and I pout a big that my phone keyboard doesn't have em dash the character, and that Dreamwidth doesn't support the HTML code for it. If I want to put a real em dash in a DW post or comment, instead of using two hyphens, I have to go find one somewhere to paste in. 😡 I also suspect that I overuse commas. and I may use more question marks than average, but I have more feelings about em dashes.

[42itous]

I love "entschuldigung." And "Schörle," which is a thing I wish were commonplace in the US. I've never studied German, but several family members have. My husband taught me "Ich habe meine Gepëck gepäckt." (I'm not entirely sure I'm spelling it right.)

Most of my favorite English words come from this skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKL8livmoh8