WTF is Rayshayshay language? I don't know how to spell the world at all, but it sounds like rayshayshay.

HELP!!!!!!!!

I dunno.  I could only find 14 languages that begin with an 'r', and none sound like Rashayshay.

Rajasthani
Rarotonqan
Rhade
Rhaeto-Romance
Riffian
Rohinqva
Romanian
Romansh
Romany
Rumanian
Rundi
Rune Rows
Russian
Rawanda

Why didn't you ask the person you heard say it?  Or was it on TV?

Thanks for your efforts!

It was a lecture by a  professor. She was talking about ambiguous language used by oracles back in the day bwaaaaaaa! I'm obsessed!

email her with an it`s driving me crazy question and she will be secretly thrilled that someone is actually listening to her lectures.  At least 12 brownie points.

oops! It wasn't one of my professors. It was a lecture by Elizabeth Vandiver. from The Teaching Company.

I'm guessing it was a french word, if not, I dunno.

Are you sure this wasn't something from a dream you had the night before?

Sure, It's not a french word .

So email her anyway just to satisfy your curiousity.  vandive@whitman.edu

yeah email her cuz now i need to know. damn you & your questioning ways.

Dude is smokin' some shiz for grizzle. *rolls eyes*

I assume the word you heard was "recherche", which is pronounced "re-sher-shay". It's a proper French word meaning "to search for" or "to search for again", but it's used in English to describe someone or something that is very elegant and refined, often to the point of being a bit pretentious or obscure - that is, it's something that has been "researched" on purpose, rather than being something everyone naturally knows.

Hope that helps and it's not too late: I've been on holiday and not checked the forum for a while...

Then, the exact word is  "recherché " .

Thanks you, Spinny.  Now we can all sleep again.    j/k!

Ah Spinny. You've put my mind at ease.  Words cannot express the  love that I'm feeling towards you right now. Thank you!

I learned something new Spinny.  Thanks for that!  haha What a good college-level  word!   And the instructor using it without explanation....very recherche.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             EDIT:  Sorry Colombe.  I don`t have the e with an accent.  Or if I do I don`t know where it is!

[ Last edited by  Flagday at 2009-11-11 08:04 PM ]

In fact  recherché (with é) have the same meaning than in english,something elegant ,"raffiné" = studied, or affected. But recherché meaning also =wanted ,like in western movies. To search=rechercher,        To search for = chercher  , and seek for = rechercher ,chercher.

I don't either, so I will just copy and past her's.

recherché

That's ok .