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Multiplicative (used often in math and science) Teetotalitarianism (adamently deciding not to consume alcohol) Tintinnabulation (ringing of bells) Circumambulate (to wander around in deep reflection) Queueing (5 vowels in a row!)
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fubar is the only "backronym" I know. The word is an adaptation of the German "furchtbar", meaning terrible or abominable which was picked up by US soldiers during WW II. The common acronym (F___ up beyond all recognition) was derived later.
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I spent a few days awake contemplating this. I had an easy time writing the first two (got em done the first day), but the last three took some cogitation.
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1.)bourgeois (I love the way it sounds) 2.)Kampfe (German for fight) 3.)Altariel (Yes, my username is pretty) 4.)Eruve Nandiriel (Where is she?) 5.)Chadwick (I just love that name)
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It's an international online video game that's ENORMOUSLY popular in southeast Asia. The "lah" suffix is very prevalent in the slang of the gamers who play it, and it's the only place I've ever heard it used. My mistake!
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mu (Japanese, meaning "neither yes nor no; your question is flawed")
Just saying, but you know that's a Zen usage that never really pops up in normal conversation, right? It's a word most often used as a prefix roughly equivalent to 'non-' or 'without'.
quote:Originally posted by erosomniac:
It's an international online video game that's ENORMOUSLY popular in southeast Asia. The "lah" suffix is very prevalent in the slang of the gamers who play it, and it's the only place I've ever heard it used. My mistake!
No problem - it's no doubt because so many of its players are from Singapore or Malaysia.
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erosomniac: My brother plays Gunbound, he installed it on my computer but I have not tried it. He learned about it in Japan.
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