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The most beautiful word in the world has been chosen)))
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25 Oct 2007 Thu 11:51 pm |
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Hopihe - snowflake 
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25 Oct 2007 Thu 11:53 pm |
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YAKAMOZ is not reflection of any external light from the surface of the sea. Lights associated with YAKAMOZ are created by microorganisms, from within the sea.
The English word for YAKAMOZ is PHOSPHORESENCE.
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25 Oct 2007 Thu 11:57 pm |
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Quoting AlphaF: YAKAMOZ is not reflection of external light from the surface of the sea. Lights associated with YAKAMOZ are created by microorganisms, from within the sea.
The English word for YAKAMOZ is PHOPHORESENCE. |
Thank you very much for clearing Professor  I have just translated the news without checking Turkish meaning...Anyway,it is nice isn't it?I mean the word
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25 Oct 2007 Thu 11:58 pm |
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My favorite word of all is from Japanese: WABI
WABI means "beauty of simplicity". I know of no orher language which ezpresses this profound concept in one single word.
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26 Oct 2007 Fri 12:06 am |
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Wabi-sabi describes the penultimate Japanese aesthetic of art that is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional.
http://nobleharbor.com/tea/chado/WhatIsWabi-Sabi.htm
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.digital-leaf.org/portfolio/photo/images/wabi_sabi_001.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.digital-leaf.org/portfolio/photo/photo_a_001.html&h=482&w=720&sz=34&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=bSM1fMZZspMvlM:&tbnh=94&tbnw=140&prev=/images%3Fq%3DWABI%2Bimage%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den
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26 Oct 2007 Fri 04:45 am |
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My favorite word cannot be written here without getting me in trouble! 
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26 Oct 2007 Fri 03:51 pm |
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According to a survey taken "Mum" is the most beautiful word in the English language. I wonder where this derived from. 
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26 Oct 2007 Fri 04:17 pm |
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Desire...
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26 Oct 2007 Fri 04:45 pm |
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Yakamoz is a Greek origin word in Turkish.
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28 Oct 2007 Sun 11:06 am |
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Rengarenk 
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29 Oct 2007 Mon 09:10 pm |
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am I right in saying that in Turkish people say the sun is 'born' instead of the sun 'rises' ? My Turkish teacher once said 'the sun is born in the east' which I think was a literal translation.. If so that is something from Turkish which I love . It's as if people look different at the world because of different words to describe it..
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29 Oct 2007 Mon 11:18 pm |
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Quoting Chantal: 'the sun is born in the east' |
Ohhhh I love that!
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30 Oct 2007 Tue 01:58 am |
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Quoting Chantal:
It's as if people look different at the world because of different words to describe it.. |
If you take the ethimology of a word you can discover "lost" meanings. or long forgotten origins.
Naming the same thing in different languages might be done with words which root can bring up whole new associations.
Like a gigantic puzzle.)))
Fascination, for example comes from latin fascinum, which originally meant (also) amulets against evil eye, spells or charms.
The sun bornes in the morning and dies in the night.)
A fascinating world.))
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30 Oct 2007 Tue 07:04 am |
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Quoting Chantal: am I right in saying that in Turkish people say the sun is 'born' instead of the sun 'rises' ? My Turkish teacher once said 'the sun is born in the east' which I think was a literal translation.. If so that is something from Turkish which I love . It's as if people look different at the world because of different words to describe it.. |
Right it's a literal translation.
As we say:
The sun is born, rises, goes down and sinks (sets)
Güneş doğar, yükselir, alçalır, batar
So
East = doğu
West = batı
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05 Nov 2007 Mon 03:30 pm |
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"ebruli" ... my favorite word so far!
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Interestingly enough when I started learning English my favorite word was "impossible" lol. I liked it before I even knew what it meant...