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PostPosted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:04 am 
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Interesting.


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:45 pm 
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Ah SO!


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 11:01 am 
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Yu So Dum.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 12:10 pm 
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GK wrote:
Yu So Dum.


Some sort of curry I presume.

I suspect that the rise of Chinese wine will cause headaches for the next generations of MW students.


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 3:19 pm 
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Experience shows that the French have nothing to worry about.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:14 pm 
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Mel, no offense meant to our Chinese friends

Reading the textbooks, internet translation is dire.

It is the sound of the language at anything approaching raised voice level, that will give you and other MW folks a headache - Which sound or the corresponding adjective to describe such, is the opposite of Melifluous ?

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:52 pm 
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Could make for some horrendous LQ pics...


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PostPosted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:00 am 
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Duncan wrote:
Which sound or the corresponding adjective to describe such, is the opposite of Melifluous ?


May I propose "Strident" and "Stentorian"?


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