I've made up a Spanish word for "Du'ers".

[raccoon]

The word is "dillueros." It is pronounced Dee-you-air-oss.

If you are a native Spanish speaker, Spanish teacher, or know how to say "Adios" and "Muchas gracias" and you think it should be spelled differently, please post.

[raccoon]

1. Well, doesn't anyone even care? Maybe I should've posted this in

"Language and Linguistics."

[kentauros]

2. I know how to pronounce some languages

but the vocabulary is too often not retained.

I have to ask how prominent is the pronunciation of the 'u' in "dillueros" and which syllable gets the primary accent? :)

[raccoon]

3. Dee-you-AIR-oss.

It would rhyme with obreros, companeros (I don't know how to do the en-yay on DU.)

[kentauros]

4. That's kind of what I thought.

I was confused with your seeming emphasis on the first syllable ;)

I don't know how to make that special character, either. Maybe just find an example elsewhere online and copy it into the text :)

[raccoon]

5. Well, to me, DU'ers sounds kind of....awkward. nt

[kentauros]

7. It writes awkward, too.

Maybe we should just go with Greek, instead.

ΔΥερ

:P

[MrMickeysMom]

6. Sniglet?

Do you remember when "sniglets" were "IN"? I think it was sometime in the 70's (hard enough for me to remember that decade anyway).

So, this would be a Spanish sniglet for DUers?

Bueno!

P.S. Maybe I can be evil and ask you to come up with one for DU's "Dungeon"... :evilgrin:

[kentauros]

8. I remember sniglets!

If only the word "factoid" had been included... ;)

[MrMickeysMom]

9. Sniglets were ahead of their time...

as exampled by ...


Chorecast (chor-cæst) n. A particularly bad weather forecast that implies shoveling or scraping ice from a windshield.

If I decide to have a few beers Friday night, I should start a thread of home grown sniglets having to do with DUers. Maybe someone's done that already.

Woot!~

[marzipanni]

10. or Esdeores

subterráneo democrático ;)

[kentauros]

11. Are we all spelunkers now?

:P

[OffWithTheirHeads]

12. No nintendo!

[MiddleFingerMom]

13. Pronunciation?

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Make it TWO of 'em and you gotcherself a li'l poem goin'.
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Dos Dillueros.
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[raccoon]

15. Right, with a long "o". nt

[KamaAina]

14. En francais: "Les Douistes"

More?

[raccoon]

16. I like it! nt

[Kali]

17. the letter "d" is pronounced more like day than dee

the literal would probably be more like dey oo AIR oze without the "ll"/"Y" sound

guerreros would be more appropriate for gd and possibly borachos for the lounge:P

[merh]

18. I would think that loco

would be more appropriate for the lounge.

:crazy: :hi:

[Kali]

20. oh yes

much better and can have several meanings

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. duzistas?

people who comb the threads, seeking DUZYs.

:hi:

[rug]

21. That translates as dildu.