Aficionado

[janaage]

Is a word I have definitely said during my 30 years on this planet, but until I wrote an email to a friend of mine a minute ago, I don't think I had ever written it in all of my days.

2008, the year of discovery.....

[magicroundabout]

and it means?

[magicroundabout]

aficionado
noun [C] plural aficionados FORMAL
someone who is very interested in and enthusiastic about a particular subject:


interesting word

[janaage]

I have a friend who started watching the Mighty Boosh about two weeks ago and now he acts like he's some kind of expert on the series, banging on about it.  So aficionado was a very apt word to use.  I've now used aficionado 8 times in my life.

Brilliant.  Still haven't handwritten it yet, saving that for a special occasion.

[magicroundabout]

how do you pronounce it?

i'm going to try and put that into a conversation today to sound cleverish, sort of!!!!!!  

[Reg Smeeton]

how do you pronounce it?

i'm going to try and put that into a conversation today to sound cleverish, sort of!!!!!!  

 If you follow JA's advice and use it as an adjective, you wont sound at all clever.

[Samdy Gray]

how do you pronounce it?

Ah-fish-on-ah-doh

[janaage]

how do you pronounce it?

i'm going to try and put that into a conversation today to sound cleverish, sort of!!!!!!  

 If you follow JA's advice and use it as an adjective, you wont sound at all clever.

 

I do wish I had a better knowledge of the English language, verb, noun, adjective wise.  Can't remember any of that kind of thing from school.

[magicroundabout]

how do you pronounce it?

Ah-fish-on-ah-doh

 

[Reg Smeeton]

how do you pronounce it?

i'm going to try and put that into a conversation today to sound cleverish, sort of!!!!!!  

 If you follow JA's advice and use it as an adjective, you wont sound at all clever.

 

I do wish I had a better knowledge of the English language, verb, noun, adjective wise.  Can't remember any of that kind of thing from school.

 I've a  GCE "O" Level in Latin....although uncertain at the time why the fuck I was doing it, it does give a later insight into the structure of language.

 Although I still have the odd nightmare aboiut the future pluperfect and dative and ablative case,

[axs]

I too have a Latin GCSE Reg, I still regularly have nightmares about present past participles.

[Foggy]

I too have a Latin GCSE Reg, I still regularly have nightmares about present past participles.

Ahh but what you have to remember is that when Reg was at school latin was still the official spoken tongue of this septic Isle.

[janaage]

See all that past this and future that is like a foreign language to (no pun intended), which is a bit embarrassing to say the least.

[janaage]

I too have a Latin GCSE Reg, I still regularly have nightmares about present past participles.

Ahh but what you have to remember is that when Reg was at school latin was still the official spoken tongue of this septic Isle.

It probably was of the Catholic church.  They used to do Mass in latin until a few years ago didn't they (1970's?).

[axs]

I too have a Latin GCSE Reg, I still regularly have nightmares about present past participles.

Ahh but what you have to remember is that when Reg was at school latin was still the official spoken tongue of this septic Isle.

When Reg was at school they probably taught him grammar and sentence construction, something that was missing entirely from my English education. I learnt more from reading books than I did from English teachers.