interesting words
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Re: interesting words
I know, there are many derivative words, I was referring to the on-line dictionary, which is not bound to paper and tomes. They could really come up with a more useful definition. For "ostensibility", the definition should be the "the state of feigning the appearance, characteristics and properties of something". I learn about this stuff every day in the university, and well, to tell the honest, defining "ostensibility" as "the state of being ostensible" would be rewarded with a big fat F, and a mocking remark: "Why thank you, Captain Obvious, you saved the day!"
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Re: interesting words
free dictionaries come with free quality...Reactor wrote:I know, there are many derivative words, I was referring to the on-line dictionary, which is not bound to paper and tomes. They could really come up with a more useful definition. For "ostensibility", the definition should be the "the state of feigning the appearance, characteristics and properties of something". I learn about this stuff every day in the university, and well, to tell the honest, defining "ostensibility" as "the state of being ostensible" would be rewarded with a big fat F, and a mocking remark: "Why thank you, Captain Obvious, you saved the day!"
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Re: interesting words
Heh, you got a point
I should have known!
Well never mind, at least they include a hyperlink to the stem word.

Well never mind, at least they include a hyperlink to the stem word.
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Re: interesting words
reykjavik
það
ég
heti
refur
bærinn
bless
takk
goðan takk
goðan daginn
sorry these words are in icelandic
but sound very interesting when pronounced correctly
meh sometimes the english tongue can be difficult to pronounce but take a look at icelandic
ð is pronounced th as in the
þ is pronounced th as in think
það
ég
heti
refur
bærinn
bless
takk
goðan takk
goðan daginn
sorry these words are in icelandic
but sound very interesting when pronounced correctly
meh sometimes the english tongue can be difficult to pronounce but take a look at icelandic
ð is pronounced th as in the
þ is pronounced th as in think