Wednesday, December 05, 2007

La palabra del día

Today I spoke to a fine gentleman from Puerto Rico, who, upon my impartment of good news, exclaimed "¡formidable!"

I deem this a most excellent ejaculation and shall deploy it with cautious abandon.

10 Comments:

Blogger The Modesto Kid said...

Yeah, cool. I have heard this same exclamation and have intended (at the time) to incorporate it into my own vocabulary of mannerisms; but it never seems to work out. Maybe will come more naturally to a Spanish-speaker.

5/12/07 4:15 PM  
Blogger eekbeat said...

C'est francais, aussi, mon cher!

5/12/07 10:47 PM  
Blogger ||| said...

and i will use it with timid exuberance

6/12/07 9:05 AM  
Blogger Stanley said...

¡Formidable!

6/12/07 1:45 PM  
Blogger Will said...

C'est francais, aussi, mon cher!

I was thinking the same thing. (Without the affection, though, despite my fondness for you.)

6/12/07 2:47 PM  
Blogger ||| said...

single-minded ambivalence?

6/12/07 2:57 PM  
Blogger ||| said...

no, no. serene apoplexy.

6/12/07 2:57 PM  
Blogger Stanley said...

will: I appreciate the fondness. I think it sounds great in French, too.

neo: you're doing the Lord's work here. And cracking me up, to boot.

6/12/07 4:08 PM  
Blogger heebie-geebie said...

For the record, I read this as i-formidable the first time I read this post.

7/12/07 9:48 PM  
Blogger Stanley said...

New from Apple: the iFormidable. It WITHSTANDS.

9/12/07 3:15 PM  

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