Is there a word in your native tongue that you've never physically spoken, although you've seen it in print and know the meaning of it?
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Yes. It is the word Sex. I have never said it in my native tongue (Korean) once in my whole life.
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Floccinaucinihilipilification. This is an actual English word meaning "nothing" and defined as "the act of estimating something as worthless". I'm pretty sure I'll never be using this word in my daily conversations.
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Linguists are quite sure that everyone's passive vocabulary is bigger than their active vocabulary. In other words, we ALL know the meaning of words we will never use. Thousands of them.
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I don't think I've ever said the word Fornication out loud.
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Pallendrome (I doubt thats how its spelt)
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I have two: synecdoche and interstices
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Odious
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I would say that I have not said "mindj" out loud but that is a lie... I have been saying it quite a bit because I have been dealing with a troll on another board and "mindj" has become a staple of my vocabulary. I have even been saying "tu dinlo sov" or "khul bokh" for the same reason. Oh, those are not very nice words in Rromanes. Rromanes just really has some vile sounding cusswords. You can really spit them and have good effect. :)
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Yes. It's quintessential.
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I've never said "fucker" out loud. There are probably other similar words. I do not curse at all, and even in that "trying it out" stage, it was extremely limited. Other than that, I don't think so! At least, I have a habit of trying to pronounce words as I look them up/ask the meaning, so even most words I've never USED I've at least spoken.
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