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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Catalog of Beautiful Untranslatable Words from Around the World. By Maria Popova The euphoria experienced as you begin to fall in love, the pile of books bought but unread, the coffee “threefill,” and other lyrical linguistic delights.
“Words belong to each other,” Virginia Woolf said in the only surviving recording of her voice, a magnificent meditation on the beauty of language. A Visual Alphabet-Dictionary of Unusual Words. By Maria Popova A visual A-Z of the hidden treasures of language.
As a lover of language and words, especially obscure and endangered words, I was instantly besotted with Project Twins’ visual interpretations of unusual words, originally exhibited at the MadArt Gallery Dublin during DesignWeek 2011. Acersecomic A person whose hair has never been cut. Biblioclasm The practice of destroying, often ceremoniously, books or other written material and media.
Cacodemonomania The pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit. Dactylion An anatomical landmark located at the tip of the middle finger. Enantiodromia The changing of something into its opposite. Enrichir son Vocabulaire pour Briller avec les Mots - Intégrer Sciences Po. Top 10 des insultes rares, élégantes, et joliment désuètes.
Quand la moutarde vous monte au nez, votre registre lexical s'appauvrit et vous vous abandonnez sans vergogne à un flot de jurons horriblement communs? Laissons les insultes vulgaires au vulgum pecus! Préférons les injures rares et choisies. Certaines obsolètes au possible n'en ont que plus de charme. La preuve avec cette sélection dont vous pourrez user et abuser. 100 Exquisite Adjectives. By Mark Nichol Adjectives — descriptive words that modify nouns — often come under fire for their cluttering quality, but often it’s quality, not quantity, that is the issue.
Plenty of tired adjectives are available to spoil a good sentence, but when you find just the right word for the job, enrichment ensues. Practice precision when you select words. Here’s a list of adjectives: Liste de noms de couleur. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
Dictionnaire des noms de couleurs. Le dictionnaire des noms de couleurs regroupe 589 noms de couleurs dont 456 sont consultables à ce jour.
Plusieurs classements sont proposés. Chacun présente les noms de couleurs avec - si disponible - un échantillon de la teinte correspondante. Rappelez-vous que chaque nom est cliquable et vous permet d'accéder à une fiche détaillée. Les classements disponibles aujourd'hui sont les suivants : Dans le milieu industriel, les nuanciers associent des noms précis à des teintes bien déterminées, pour assurer la reproductibilité, la constance de la couleur d'un produit. Cependant, le nom donne souvent des informations visuelles autres que celle d'une simple couleur, comme par exemple la brillance, la transparence ou la matité. 11 Untranslatable Words You Didn't Know Existed - Word Porm.
Language has always been a curiously complex phenomenon.
While Eskimos have 100 different words for snow we still struggle to find the right vocabulary to express love in our own tongues. The list of words that can’t be deciphered from one vernacular to another are outstandingly beautiful. Here are 11 untranslatable word you didn’t know existed: 1. Cualacino The mark left on a table by a cold glass. Language of Origin: Italian 2. The feeling that comes from not being in one’s home country. Métonymie. Une métonymie est une figure de style qui, dans la langue ou son usage, utilise un mot pour signifier une idée distincte mais qui lui est associée.
L'association d'idées sous-entendue est souvent naturelle (partie/tout, contenant/contenu, cause/effet…), parfois symbolique (ex. royauté/couronne) ou encore logique[1] : l’artiste pour l’œuvre, la ville pour ses habitants, le lieu pour l’institution qui y est installée, etc. Étymologie[modifier | modifier le code] Mécanisme[modifier | modifier le code] La métonymie remplace un mot A, par un mot ou une courte expression de même nature grammaticale B. Rimes. Dictionnaire de rimes. History through the president’s words. Prettiest Words: A Work in Progress. 100 Most beautiful words in the English language*