Off to call things into existence by uttering new names:
Rosa que al prado, encarnada, te ostentas presuntuosa de grana y carmín bañada: campa lozana y gustosa; pero no, que siendo hermosa también serás desdichada.
The other one seemed like...someone who didn't know what the word really meant and was just trying to use a fancy word, confusing it with consort or perhaps companion, colleague.
I think the way most people use a dictionary is "I either want to use a word in this context, or somebody already did. Is it valid? Oh, it's under the dictionary entry so it must be."
@Cerberus Perhaps, but I doubt you pay as much attention to that with Dutch, or at least if you do, the other people around you do not. Is that a fair assumption?
Come to think of it, I am not certain enough about your current geographic location to know what language the people currently around you speak.
Would you find it inappropriate if a textbook had model answers on the side that were called "Golden Nuggets"? Or would you rather just have them called "Model Answers"?
@KitZ.Fox "when I come back you'll know, know, know"
...and I'm back
@KitZ.Fox Nougat also terrible but for other reasons. What is it? THat's the primary reason. I don't know what it is. If you said it's highly processed, whipped, frothed high glucose corn syrup, That's like telling me I'm made of 206 bones, 600+ muscles, a coupla eyes thrown in and in between stuff. What the H is Nougat?!!
@MattE.Эллен My beef with this (to uncomfortably mix metaphors and split infinitives) is that the comercials say 'covered in nuts (OK, comes from trees), creamy chocolate (I'm sure there's a chocolate mine somewhere) caramel (one of the important stages in sugar cooking) and then with a nougat (WTH is that) center.
@tchrist OK, but not everyone's are Gothic. Mr Shiny, Reg, Matt, ...
@Cerberus I was reading yesterday about some of the past drama on ELU. Jesus effing Christ, I feel for you guys. Makes SFF's last election look like a kids' playground.
@Cerberus Yeah, I just found out about the whole Jeff/Kosmo thing in 2011. And I already knew about the chat fallout last year. Is there even MOAR drama comparable to those?