Question 45

[toto1115]

Teachers,

I do know what motto and catchphrase/word means

How about just a random word that a person uses so much oftener just for personal affection, the word doesn't have to make any sense at all.

What would you call the WORD ????

Just an example, let's use the word " FRXXKING "

We all know frXXking is an exclaimation of anger, which doesn't fit in standard English, but people do it,

Frxxking is just an example to demonstarte my question.

[Rusty]

Teachers,

I do know what motto and catchphrase/word means

How about just a random word that a person uses so much oftener just for personal affection, the word doesn't have to make any sense at all.

What would you call the WORD ????

Just an example, let's use the word " FRXXKING "

We all know frXXking is an exclaimation of anger, which doesn't fit in standard English, but people do it,

Frxxking is just an example to demonstarte my question. Is "expletive" the word you are looking for?

ex·ple·tive
noun (plural ex·ple·tives)
Definitions:1. linguistics swearword: an exclamation, especially a swearword

2. grammar word with no meaning: a word that carries no meaning but has a grammatical function in a sentence. In the sentence "There are three books on the table," "there" is an expletive.

3. poetry meaningless word in line of poetry: a word added to a line of verse in order to fill it out, usually for the sake of the meter. In the line "When and that I was a little tiny lad," the words "and that" are expletives.

[toto1115]

Thank you Rusty

However, Expletive is rather a nevgative word for this

I mean a word a person use with no particular reason, not neccessarily to do with rudeness,


For instance, Okay-dokey ~

People sometimes use it ~ but if I do it with a very dence frequency,

I would say Okay-dokey is my ...... now

[bud]

Hi Toto,

Many sports announcers are known for their signature calls. For example, Marv Albert is known for saying, "Yessssss!," after a great play. So maybe you could say that such a phrase is your signature phrase.

[toto1115]

Thanks, Bud

but that is not what i heard from my teacher

i suppose i could have asked her about it

but i forgot to mention it to her last time


i remember her saying something a "MAYHAZE/MAYHAM"

i don't know~~

[Rusty]

Thanks, Bud

but that is not what i heard from my teacher

i suppose i could have asked her about it

but i forgot to mention it to her last time


i remember her saying something a "MAYHAZE/MAYHAM"

i don't know~~ Could your teacher have said, "mantra"?
This is from http://www.onelook.com

(mantra)
noun: (Sanskrit) literally a `sacred utterance' in Vedism; one of a collection of orally transmitted poetic hymns
noun: a commonly repeated word or phrase (Example: "She repeated `So pleased with how its going' at intervals like a mantra")

[toto1115]

It should be the one ~~ Thanks