some times i happen across words in the english language, in a book, or in the course of a conversation. and it’s not the words that are completely new or incomprehensible to me that are interesting here, although those pop up at intervals as well. it’s the simple words that i’ve known for ever, but have somehow managed to blend into the background and avoid being used. words such as ludicrous or irksome.
when that happens, i pick them up. i try them out. i most definitely overuse them for a while. i guess that must be an annoying habbit if you have the misfortune of spending a lot of time with during one of these word trials, but it’s something i have to do. to test them out, try them in different circumstances and various sentences. feel them from different angles and find out where exactly their boundaries lie, so that i can eventually nestle them back into my daily vocabulary where they belong.
How ludicrous and irksome!
Isn’t language fun? I’m learning Danish, and I think there are a lot of great Danish words, like “snavse” and “knække”. Almost onomatopoeic, in fact … 😉
yeah, language rocks. as a concept that is!
enjoy your danish lessons. that has got to be one of the harder languages to learn to speak. writing it should be easy, but speaking. that’s a mouthful. onomatopoeic. what a wonderful word. generally not a word that comes up much in day-to-day blabbing, but lovely none the less.
onomatopoetisk in danish (as well as swedish and norwegian).
Thanks for the link to this page