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I am fascinated by language. This is a group to discuss, talk about, visualise this key element of human interaction

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Location: The Mhun - sunshine city
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Latest Activity: Feb 6, 2017

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Comment by Richard Roman on July 10, 2013 at 0:15
Jodie you know this?

The English language owes a great debt to Shakespeare. He invented over 1700 of our common words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes, and devising words wholly new!

I am just going to mention a few

accommodation
aerial
amazement
apostrophe
assassination
auspicious
baseless
bloody
bump
castigate
changeful
clangor
control (noun)
countless
courtship
critic
critical
dexterously
dishearten
dislocate
dwindle
eventful


Hope you like it!
Comment by Chris Knight on July 5, 2013 at 8:03

Forget software, Richard.

http://www.fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php

Comment by Richard ridealgh on July 4, 2013 at 0:20
A bit off topic?! But can anyone suggest any good learning software for android or apple to learn Chinese by myself?
Comment by Richard Roman on July 3, 2013 at 18:51
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I Imagine Oscar Wilde to have had a languorous manner

Ok- how about this Spittalfields- a place in London but sounds great!
Comment by Richard Roman on July 2, 2013 at 17:50
Languorous - another nice word!
Comment by Richard Roman on July 2, 2013 at 17:49
Madrugada - according to my understanding stands for that time between night and day when everything is still and calm- think of that point about dawn when the day is full of potential but has yet to fully open up into the activity of morning. Beautiful!
Comment by Richard Roman on July 2, 2013 at 14:43
Sorry Ferney- it is spelt Madrugada. But I prefer my spelling!
Comment by Jack Field on July 2, 2013 at 10:49

Madrigada, certainly a mellifluous word. :)

Comment by Richard Roman on July 2, 2013 at 0:39
I pillory you Chris! yes, I pillory you!

What a wonderful word


How about this. It is Portuguese- and my favourite wrd:

Madrigada - what does it mean?
Comment by Chris Knight on July 1, 2013 at 23:07

Ain't Wikipedia great?

 

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