That's better.

Brazilian dude

I didn't force anything.

Brazilian dude

English normally takes foreign words and pronounces them in a way that not rarely doesn't reflect the original pronunciation. So it would be closer to number 1, as described above. Besides, I think the era in which English sucked up foreign words is pretty much over. English is exporting many more w...

Based on idolatry, I think it could be epeolater/epeolator (noun), epeolatrous (adjective) and epeolatry (noun).

Brazilian dude

Imagine if the British had an Academy with the goal of erasing all foreign words that have snuck into the English language. Here's a useful one (chosen at random, of course): xenophobia. No, I don't think it's a matter of xenophobia. There are certain languages (most?) that don't have certain conso...

From the matchless www.worldwidewords.org. Weird Words: Epeolatry The worship of words. Though an appropriate term for this forum, it hasn’t achieved any great success in the world at large. It’s not even especially old, since its first known user, and presumably its creator, was Oliver Wendell Holm...

Let me just say I don't know squat about Farsi. But anyway, I think it laudable that the Academy has launched such a strategy, especially if the foreign words targeted at hurt the language's phonology. Nevertheless, these "new" words can be nothing more than a suggestion. If things are bei...

Latin verb deferre, look here.

Brazilian dude

Funny I understood it the moment I saw it. We have delatar in Portuguese.

Brazilian dude

Funny you should mention ramify. Today I learned an Italian word, ramingo, which means a bird, just after hatching, which hops from branch to branch. Can anybody think of a good English equivalent? And by the way, is there any name for a concept you've never heard of, and then, after the first time ...

Or even better: there could be a section here called puns or jokes or anything to that effect.

Brazilian dude

I have been following for the past weeks the decadence of this forum and its being changed into a chatroom. I'd hate for it to end up like the other one, which I was (and still am) very attached to. I say this because I think the chatting here is becoming absurd. For this purpose there are other pla...

As a matter of fact, I have four eyes.

Brazilian dude

I should think they are related. Latin facere (to do) underlies both words. Nefas is something that shouldn't be done, hence a violation.

Brazilian dude

Oh, I know why! I think of nefarious.

Brazilian dude