Poll: Your favourite words.

[Barbas]

(...)Actually, come to think of it, it's mostly short quotes from...stuff. Mostly games as strategy games has looots of short quotes. For example, I am always tempted/expect a "Da" to be followed up with "For the Union!" and/or "For mother Russia" (lines which the conscripts - Soviet infantry in Red Alert 2). Similarly, I almost personify "Kirov reporting" with Russia.

Probably the most notable not-from-a-strategy-game example would be Megatron's (from Beast Wars) "Yes, yees. Excellent!". Which I don't actually think he used as much.

Spoiler: Certainly lots of 'Yes'-es, though

And as a not-a-quote example (erm, not sort of directly) I have "In Hastur's name" which I find just a really good way to curse sort of without cursing while also sounding mean.

First of all, I bloody love that game and its quotes. The GIs sounded like they did a bit too much helium, though. So far, only Blizzard games and the CoH series have really made me laugh with their unit quotes. The "ye-eesss" is certainly bang-on-the-money, though. Reminds me of Dr Evil's "riiight".

It also reminded me of this:


Stamper's really got quite the voice.

(...)Dude: A word I would purposefully put emphasis on the "U" part 9/10 times...(...)

I used to have a way of annoying people in my school by dragging that word out. I'd put a y in front of the "uuu" so it sounded like "Dyuuuuude!"

Simpler times. Almost set off one of my teachers once.

Crap
It used to be a staple word, really. It's good on its own, good when rapid-fired, good when drawn out and bellowed or expelled through gritted teeth. It's also relatively tame, especially when you live in Britain.

Should you make more of what? Words?

When i was little i made a compound word a couple hundred letters long

More threads like this, I was thinking. Words and accents in particular excite me, for some reason.

 

[Malbourne]

Words and accents in particular excite me, for some reason.

Oh, you dirty, dirty umlaut. I thought up a couple of German ones, then:

Hübschen: (hewb-shen) Which is usually a catch-all term for attractive, but hey, I just studied this stuff. It's not like I took it to the road. Also, it's generally cute when the suffic -chen is added to a word.

König: (kur-nig) Means king. I just think it's fun to say, but that extends to a lot of the words that have an O with umlaut.

Kirsche: (kir-shuh) Cherry. Learned it in my first failed attempt at a Black Forest Cake.

Kirche: (kir-*pleghm*-uh) Church. Well, it amused me a lot when I mixed them up. It's also pretty fun to pronounce in front of friends who think I'm having a coughing fit.

 

[Mr Fixit]

I'm quite fond of "jackass" & "jackassery".

I find myself saying "indeed" a lot.

And just because it pisses so many people off "whatever" is one of my all time favs.

 

[TheRiddler]

Also, the word "shit". But only when used by Clay Davis on The Wire.

 

[DasDestroyer]

I like Prestidigitator, mostly because it's a lot harder to pronounce than it looks.
It basically just means magician or illusionist.

 

[mjharper]

Another one for "defenestrate". Such an awesome word.

 

[Guffe]

Spunkgargleweewee: First Person Shooters (I think?)

Also
Bollocks!

When an Englishman uses the word, you can be 110% sure something has gone wrong