Séthe ♥ (sca_sethe) wrote in linguaphiles,
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Trigger Words

I guess this is almost more of psychological question, but I'm just wondering~

What are your trigger words? What word always comes to mind whenever you hear *that* trigger word? For example, whenever I hear coconut, I start singing "You put the lime in the coconut and shake it all up..." or when I hear bacon & eggs, I think of a joke from Dane Cook and it just makes me smile. 

In light of languages, I always seem to think "sûr la table" whenever I want to say that something is on a table, or "made", always reminds me of how I had to get used to pronouncing it as "mah-dey" if I was looking at a Japanese romanization. (まで)

I wonder if there are any that are shared or so such. =3
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    To the memory of Vladislav Illich-Svitych. This is just to bring attention to something very ‘Nostratic’ (far beyond ‘Indo-European’ languages —…

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