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Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 18 Jun 2010, 06:23
by Zhyard
I think so.
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 18 Jun 2010, 07:20
by ThrashJazzAssassin
We used to get post for a previous occupant of our student house who went by the name of Christian Vice.
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 18 Jun 2010, 08:09
by empath
No offense, Zhyard (or anyone else in the same boat), but that sort of thing is the reason I gave up trying to learn German; "head-medicine-sales-building" or
"pharmacy".
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 19 Jun 2010, 08:06
by Bananafish
Koala
say "koala"
"Koala"
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 19 Jun 2010, 09:22
by empath
Banana.
(I actually had to check that I was supposed to stop there)
Banananananananananannanananananananna.
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 19 Jun 2010, 11:07
by Zhyard
Moose
It's more a sound than a word!
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 19 Jun 2010, 13:39
by asrz
Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford, 7th Earl Talbot, Baron Talbot, Viscount Ingestre and Lord High Steward of Ireland.
I'm not kidding, look him up.
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 19 Jun 2010, 17:04
by theDreamer
Zhyard wrote:Moose
It's more a sound than a word!
It is onomatopoeia.
Urban dictionary it.
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 19 Jun 2010, 17:25
by Vigafre
I really wish onomatopoeia was an onomatopoeia.
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 20 Jun 2010, 00:52
by Sieg Reyu
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 20 Jun 2010, 01:55
by Zhyard
theDreamer wrote:Zhyard wrote:Moose
It's more a sound than a word!
It is onomatopoeia.
Urban dictionary it.
An onomatopoeia is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.Moose does not refer to a sound and is thus not an onomatopoeia.
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 23 Jun 2010, 11:58
by BipsCutie
'approprinquo' Latin for 'I approach'
'anulus' Latin for 'Ring'
ominous ... i love that word....
onomatopoeia is a good word, obviously....
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 24 Jun 2010, 15:32
by TomBrend
I thought of another today.
Eschew.
Worst word ever.
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 24 Jun 2010, 17:04
by I Palindroem I
Falafel.
It sounds more like a foreign shoe than a tasty dish. And yet...
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 24 Jun 2010, 17:28
by Vigafre
Segue should be spelled segway. Why isn't it spelled segway?
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 25 Jun 2010, 00:36
by Ergo
The trombone (an odd word in itself) apparently evolved from an instrument called the sackbutt.
Yeah. SACKBUTT.
Actually I think it's more accurately "sackbut"; although "sackbutt" is apparently an officially recognised spelling. But then again so is "sagbutt", so who knows.
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 25 Jun 2010, 09:46
by Keab42
Whilst we're on instruments. Bassoon.
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 25 Jun 2010, 09:54
by Sable
I have met someone called J. Sterling Ditsworth.
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 25 Jun 2010, 10:03
by 2stepz
I had an associate named Rob Robb, Jr. Not bad enough to do it once, his dad had to repeat it.
Registered a guy for classes whose name was Luke Sky Walker.
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 25 Jun 2010, 20:13
by the amativeness
Keab42 wrote:Whilst we're on instruments...
Don't get me started.
*Flugelhorn
*Euphonium
*Nose Flute
*Octocontrabass Clarinet
*Heckelphone
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 25 Jun 2010, 20:17
by Vigafre
Glockenspiel
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 25 Jun 2010, 23:24
by TimeCruiserMike
lake titicaca
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 26 Jun 2010, 06:03
by empath
Guelph.
That's not a town, it's what you do on the way home after a really good party.
"Quick; pull the car over - I gotta GUELPH!"
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 26 Jun 2010, 16:15
by GaProgMan
Vigafre wrote:I really wish onomatopoeia was an onomatopoeia.
I'm getting a flash back of the Simpsons episode where Troy McLure puts on a musical version of the planet of the apes. But in my mind he's replacing Dr. Saeus (spelling?) with onomatopoeia
TomBrend wrote:Eschew
Bless you
...
Always wanted to do that
empath wrote:Banananananananananannanananananananna.
I remember my nan trying to teach me to spell banana when I was very young. I swear she ended up saying. To this day I'm convinved that she BSOD'd
I know of a few real sounding ones myself:
[b]Cloffing[\b] - not real, but it should be (it's a made up swear word by Fry & Laurie)
[b]Croggy[\b] - real, colloquial English (if you can call it that) from round these parts, meaning to offer somone a ride on your bike while you peddle, perched on or above the cross bar
[b]Peddle[\b], [b]Poodle[\b], [b]Doodle[\b] and [b]Noodle[\b] - I don't know why, but the 'ddle' sound has always fascinated me. I don't know the phobic name for it, but not everyone pronounces it. Some people pronounce the d's and le part seperately.
Re: What is the fakest sounding real word/name you can think of.
Posted: 26 Jun 2010, 16:20
by empath
GaProgMan wrote:Vigafre wrote:I really wish onomatopoeia was an onomatopoeia.
I'm getting a flash back of the Simpsons episode where Troy McLure puts on a musical version of the planet of the apes. But replacing Dr. Saeus (spelling?) with onomatopoeia
I spell it "Theodor Geisel"
(S-e-u-s-s)Peddle, Poodle, Noodle - I don't know why, but the 'ddle' sound has always fascinated me. I don't know the phobic name for it, but not everyone pronounces it. Some people pronounce the d's and le part seperately.
Why it's OODLES of fun (it is a fun, appealing-sounding...phoneme?)