Worth of Words

Today we've had a visitor speaker at uni (as every Thursday) and in the discussion was the topic of Marketing. I really am not a numbers person, I'm more into letters. Doesn't their combination give you a million more options than the combination of numbers? So there you go, that's one of my reason for being keen of letters/words rather than numbers.

Granted, numbers and maths can be fun too, but they are just not my thing. I promise, though, to give them another chance and try to live with them peacefully.

So all this topic led me to remember to this trend of voting for the most beautiful word of a language.
I know this is done in Spain once a year (the word 'Querétaro' was the winner in 2011)  and it was done in Iceland last year ('ljósmóðir' was the winner, it means 'midwife'). I personally have many favourites in the many languages I speak.
And now, I have decided to do something different this time, due to THE LACK OF INTERACTION IN MY BLOG. So I INVITE YOU, READERS to participate! Just write your favourite words, in any language you know, in the comments section!!! 

This could be very fun, and we all can learn words from other languages we don't know, we would like to learn or even languages that we knew but not fully! 

Clarification: This is about words that you like, not expressions you use regularly.

C'mon, let your imagination flow and participate! :D

My choices are:                                                                                       

-Spanish:

• "tarta": it means 'cake'. It might sound simple and boring, but it really gets to my mind a picture of a spongy, soft, creamy cake. 

• "hipoalergénico" : it means 'hypoallergenic' and for some reason, I like how it sounds)

-English:

• "Splendid": I like its musicality, especially when pronounced by Robert Downey Jr.

I'm...just...done.

• "acquire/acquisition" : me and my best friend Silvia fell in love with this word while taking the course "Applied linguistics to English language" and it really recalls very nice memories of those times).

• "dandelion": thanks to the fun and great Netflix's show "Orange is the New Black", this word has been taken to a whole new level. It's so much fun to try to pronounce with the same entonation as Crazy Eyes) 

-Icelandic:

• "strax" : it means kind of "right now" or "already". I just like words that contain letter 'x' and no way I was going to for 'lax' which means 'salmon'. Just... no.

• andskotin" : I just like how it sounds. This one is kind of a swear word that means... what? Kind of "fuck"? I don't really know. There aren't actually swear words in Icelandic, and if there are, they are too light, too weak. If there's a good thing to happen out of the Spanish invasion Iceland is suffering now, that is the creation of swear words. Believe you me.

So people, what are your favourite words and why? Play along!




P.S: I'm so happy for writting this, because I messed up with the format somehow and I had to fix it by working with HTML! So proud of myself :D