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Languages

German: Sehnsucht, which cannot be translated into English (or pretty much any other language), but very approximately means 'yearning'.
 
English: flare; becoming; demure; gambolling; opulent; penumbra
Italian: colombeggiare; farfalla
 
oh I forgot some

German: zeppelin
Italian: cazzo

I dunno what my favourite English word is though :(

edit: NO WAIT MERCURY
I /knew/ there was something
 
I like the word sesquipedalophobia in English cause it sounds funny, ^^, plus it's a long word that means fear of long words.

In French I like "good candy" cause it's "bon bonbons".
In Spanish, I dunno actually.
 
I took two years of French but my teacher was horrible and as such I remember none of it.

That's horrible. :( I've been wanting to learn another language for a while but after the bad experiences with that teacher I just ... don't want to anymore

ON THE SUBJECT OF ENGLISH SUCKING AS A LANGUAGE: It needs a gender-neutral pronoun and then we'd be set.
 
"It" isn't gender-neutral; it's lack of gender. You can't talk about someone you don't know as an "it."

"Someone's at the door; can you get it for it?"

"They" qualifies but some people don't like it. And those people are the ones in charge of making style manuals. :/ And I love singular they, I love it so much!
 
"it" is gender-neutral (that's kind of what lack of gender is, really) but more than anything it's dehumanising to most people.

as for me, well. one simply has to assess my gender information listed on my profile or on this very post.
 
"It" is the neuter gender i.e. something that has no gender.
A gender-neutral pronoun implies that the person being referred to has or may have a gender but that the gender doesn't matter. There's a big difference between the two. You can't use "it" to refer to people because people have gender (at least most people identify as having gender; I'm pretty sure I phrased that wrongly though).
 
I speak fluently in English (like, duh!) and I know a small bit of Chinese...

Ni hao!
Wo yao lucha.

Translates to "Hello! I would like (to have?) green tea."
 
... said:
"It" isn't gender-neutral; it's lack of gender. You can't talk about someone you don't know as an "it."

"Someone's at the door; can you get it for it?"

"They" qualifies but some people don't like it. And those people are the ones in charge of making style manuals. :/ And I love singular they, I love it so much!
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Because people who make style manuals are KINGS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR *eyeroll*

If you don't like 'it' (which is fair enough), I don't see what's wrong with 'them' and 'they'; they don't specify a gender, but aren't 'dehumanising'. They're just pronouns of cool or something.
 
Tailsy said:
If you don't like 'it' (which is fair enough), I don't see what's wrong with 'them' and 'they'; they don't specify a gender, but aren't 'dehumanising'. They're just pronouns of cool or something.
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I'm fairly sure I've had English teachers in the past who were like "RRRR 'THEY' IS PLURAL YOU CAN'T USE IT" and so I had to completely reword the sentence in question.
 
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