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 FreedomFight
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 Word of the day -- Ennui 
#4500865 - 08/05/05 05:00 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ennui - dissatisfaction or restlessness caused by boredom or apathy.
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 Re: Word of the day -- Ennui [Re: FreedomFight]
#4500890 - 08/05/05 05:08 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Fuck dude. My name is Ennui.
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Trainwreck
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Re: Word of the day -- Ennui [Re: FreedomFight]
#4500907 - 08/05/05 05:14 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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How would you pronounce that 
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FreedomFight
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Re: Word of the day -- Ennui [Re: Trainwreck]
#4500925 - 08/05/05 05:17 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Like En-Wee
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Re: Word of the day -- Ennui [Re: Trainwreck]
#4500998 - 08/05/05 05:36 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
Trainwreck said:
How would you pronounce that
Actually it'd be on-we. But very nasally, since it's just a french word adopted into english but still pronounced in its french way. The french "en" sound is like the english "on" sound but pronounced nasally.
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wow thanks!!!
i love new words and i dont think i ever heard this one befor!
and actually i've been feeling a little ennui lately so now i can even share my exect feelings much better
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Re: Word of the day -- Ennui [Re: Simisu]
#4501551 - 08/05/05 08:59 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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from dictionary.com
en?nui
n.
Listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; boredom: ?The servants relieved their ennui with gambling and gossip about their masters? (John Barth).
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[French, from Old French enui, from ennuyer, to annoy, bore. See annoy.]
Word History: Were they alive today, users of Classical Latin might be surprised to find that centuries later a phrase of theirs still survives, although as a single word. The phrase mihi in odi est (literally translated as ?to me in a condition of dislike or hatred is?), meaning ?I hate or dislike,? gave rise to the Vulgar Latin verb *inodire, ?to make odious,? the source of the Old French verb ennuyer or anoier, ?to annoy, bore.? This was borrowed into English by around 1275 as anoien, our annoy. From the Old French verb a noun meaning ?worry, boredom? was derived, which became ennui in modern French. This noun, with the sense ?boredom,? was borrowed into English in the 18th century, perhaps filling a need in polite, cultivated society.
Source: The American Heritage? Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Editin
ennui
n : the feeling of being bored by something tedious [syn: boredom, tedium]
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Re: Word of the day -- Ennui [Re: Simisu]
#4501552 - 08/05/05 08:59 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Never heard that one before.
I love to learn!
...when I'm not lazy, that is.
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Re: Word of the day -- Ennui [Re: Heinous_Anus]
#4501590 - 08/05/05 09:11 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Heinous_Anus said:
Never heard that one before.
I love to learn!
...when I'm not lazy, that is.
Amen to that!
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Re: Word of the day -- Ennui [Re: freddurgan]
#4501595 - 08/05/05 09:13 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Quote:
freddurgan said:
Quote:
Heinous_Anus said:
Never heard that one before.
I love to learn!
...when I'm not lazy, that is.
Amen to that!
Amen to that!
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Re: Word of the day -- Ennui [Re: Jabbawaya]
#4501659 - 08/05/05 09:32 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Learning... yeah I am learning 60 vocab words a day for the next 10 days which is what got me to ennui.
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