Heartland

My two favourites at the moment are:

shrapnel - lovely word, feels good to speak, and so hard to use in an every-day casual conversation. Especially if your mother tongue is swedish

succulent - you can hear what it means, it feels sweet and juicy to speak. The swedish translation is virtually the same, but still difficult to squeeze in while doing small talk.

Any others?

Juxtaposition.
Obviate.
Peril.

i always like the word "suppurate". it describes open wounds perfectly

Antidisestablishmentarianism.

sesquipedalian

Juxtaposition is a great word.

Suppurate - pure poetry.

Just seeing the word suppurate makes me feel queasy.
Another good word:
Coruscate

And for length, floccinaucinihilipilification beats antidisestablishmentarianism by two letters!

iXhosa has the best word for thunder: iindudumo

Pure onomatopaeia that. Ooooh, look, there's another good one!!!

misanthropic
ampersand
obviate
osculation
brobdingnagian

and lots, lots more....

semi-automatic
cocksucker
knobjockey
gormless muppet
pint-size nut job
oblitifried

Karst wrote:semi-automatic
cocksucker
knobjockey
gormless muppet
pint-size nut job
oblitifried

Andy, Wayne, or both

shrapnel = loose change

Weltanschauung, and

Wetwang

'NEW',
'SISTERS',
and 'ALBUM'.

chrestomathy
realpolitik
cataclysmic

payrise

emilystrange wrote:payrise

Karst wrote:semi-automatic
cocksucker
knobjockey
gormless muppet
pint-size nut job
oblitifried

"Gormless muppet" gets used quite a lot in our office to describe certain co-workers.

phantasmagoric
priapic

hallucienate wrote:Gatiep & Maraai steel 'n snoek, en sien toe 'n Polisie man Gatiep se": Sit die snoek onder jou rok! Maraai se " Dit gaan stink Gatiep !" Gatiep se vir Maraai," Druk net die snoek se neus toe."

Mwaaaahahaha.

Black Planet wrote:priapic

Karst wrote:

hallucienate wrote:Gatiep & Maraai steel 'n snoek, en sien toe 'n Polisie man Gatiep se": Sit die snoek onder jou rok! Maraai se " Dit gaan stink Gatiep !" Gatiep se vir Maraai," Druk net die snoek se neus toe."

Mwaaaahahaha.

Gatiep and Maraai stole a fish and spoke to a police man
Gatiep: -There's a fish underneath your coat!
Maraai: -Boy, does that stink, Gatiep!
Gatiep to Maraai: -Don't hold the fish to your nose.

mugabe wrote:

Karst wrote:

hallucienate wrote:Gatiep & Maraai steel 'n snoek, en sien toe 'n Polisie man Gatiep se": Sit die snoek onder jou rok! Maraai se " Dit gaan stink Gatiep !" Gatiep se vir Maraai," Druk net die snoek se neus toe."

Mwaaaahahaha.

Gatiep and Maraai stole a fish and spoke to a police man
Gatiep: -There's a fish underneath your coat!
Maraai: -Boy, does that stink, Gatiep!
Gatiep to Maraai: -Don't hold the fish to your nose.

Close, But nope

Here begin the lessons in the cape flats dialect of afrikaans:

Gatiep & Maraai steel 'n snoek, en sien toe 'n Polisie man
Gaitep and Maraai steal a snoek (fish), and then see a Policeman

Gatiep se": Sit die snoek onder jou rok!
Satiep says":put the snoek under your dress!"

Maraai se " Dit gaan stink Gatiep !"
Maraai says " It's going to stink Gatiep !"

Gatiep se vir Maraai," Druk net die snoek se neus toe."
Gatiep says to Maraai," Just close the nose of the fish."

I think it loses something in the translation

snoek=trout btw. & in Dutch it's also the nickname for a Citroen DS. A fantastic voiture. And that is enough trivia for today!

How about: "golly, isn't it warm today"?

Particularly since recent studies indicate that myself and my countrymen/women will be "enjoying" (if that's the right word) a climate comparable to Newfoundland within the next 10 years.

Bloody Gulf Stream!!!