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Old 10-19-2009, 08:36 AM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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I love the word quisling. Hardly anyone ever knows that it means.

Quisling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hadn't heard of it and didn't know what it meant, but now I do. Thank you.

Great Scrabble word, too--7 letters and with the Q!
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Old 10-19-2009, 10:26 AM
 
Location: 39 20' 59"N / 75 30' 53"W
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Panache
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Old 10-19-2009, 01:09 PM
 
Location: In my skin
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Foie gras. Oh yeah, babe.
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Old 10-19-2009, 06:54 PM
 
Location: CA
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defenestrate
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Old 10-19-2009, 06:57 PM
 
Location: CA
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Quotation: "Disperse this riotous assembly!"
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Old 10-20-2009, 09:51 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas
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C'est la vie.

Such is life. I love it. And now, thanks to CD, I know how to spell it. The French classes were filled, so I took German in high school, because my best friend was in that class. I wish I had taken Spanish.

I like the word "kartoffelkopf." Herr Kartoffelkopf=Mister Potatohead.
My favorite German word is 5,555,555. I don't know how to write it in German but it's hilarious.
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Old 10-20-2009, 10:42 AM
 
Location: 39 20' 59"N / 75 30' 53"W
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Foie gras. Oh yeah, babe.
Had to translate this, Pate' from duck liver?
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Old 10-20-2009, 03:00 PM
 
Location: 39 20' 59"N / 75 30' 53"W
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Old 10-20-2009, 03:27 PM
 
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"Sixes and Sevens". As in " the house was all in sixes and sevens"
-and the adjective , "nonplussed".
If you can use these two in one sentence, ppl will look at you funny. Hee Hee!
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Old 10-20-2009, 04:07 PM
 
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