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10:51pm January 18, 2015

ooooh I love this word

Sometimes I find a word in another language that I just love, and instantly know what it means due to a combination of pattern-matching and exposure to root words within the word.  In this case, it’s a word used in both Portuguese and Spanish:

pensadora

It means thinker.  Specifically, female thinker. The masculine form in Portuguese is pensador and same with Spanish.  

If my mouth were capable of making sounds right now, it would be saying pensadora over and over.  Sometimes I just love a word.  And growing up in an area where the original colonists spoke Spanish, I was surrounded by beautiful Spanish words like this one.  I often liked to repeat them just to hear them in my head.

Manzanita was a favorite of mine as a child.  I absolutely love the plant, too.

But for now it's pensadora.  There are just … when I was little and didn’t understand any words, all words were evaluated not baeed on meaning but sound, and this would’ve passed the sound test with flying colors.

Notes:
  1. clatterbane said: I was thinking that it looked like it might at least have a fungal component, too. Which might be a less unusual thing, dealing with a suppressed immune system. But I haven’t seen anything quite like that before. Hope it heals up ASAP.
  2. ooksaidthelibrarian reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  3. natalunasans said: another way it sounds nice is if you almost don’t say/hear the “d” also. like almost swallowed. pensa'ora it’s like more folcloric…
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