Fountain Pen In Your Language

[carlos.q]

Not quite. The original meaning for "pluma" was simply feather. So when people started writing with feather quills they were writing literally with a "pluma". Later on, with the development of fountain pens, many people still used the generic "pluma" while others would be more precise and use "pluma fuente", "pluma estilográfica" or just "estilográfica". Today many people use the generic "pluma" to mean any kind of pen, although some may still distinguish between a "pluma fuente" and a "bolígrafo" (ballpoint).

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Yes of course, that is the ETYMOLOGY of the word... when one say s: I am going to write with a "pluma" In Spanish (pen in English), the person never thinks of a feather because that meaning is lost in history, not used any more, dead. That is how the meanings of words change with usage.

That's generally true but you would be surprised. A few months back I went to an antique shop and asked if they had some "plumas". "Sure" said the attendant and promptly showed me some large ostrich feathers that probably came from a vaudeville show!

 

Also in my country the word "pluma" has another meaning: faucet (rather than "llave" or "grifo"). I imagine this use comes from comparing a faucet to a leaky fountain pen.

Edited July 4, 2014 by carlos.q

[Regulateur]

in french a fountain pen is called a "stylo" or more completely a "stylo plume" to make opposition to a ball point ("stylo bille" but we generally say "bic" for BP) but stylo is the most used

In French, stylo plume is right; however, we often hear plume fontaine, at least in Quebec. It is probably coming from English, "fountain" meaning "fontaine" in French.

[Oldtimer]

That's generally true but you would be surprised. A few months back I went to an antique shop and asked if they had some "plumas". "Sure" said the attendant and promptly showed me some large ostrich feathers that probably came from a vaudeville show!

 

Also in my country the word "pluma" has another meaning: faucet (rather than "llave" or "grifo"). I imagine this use comes from comparing a faucet to a leaky fountain pen.

Yes, we are digressing, but I agree that THAT is true. Where I come from also we drink water from the "pluma" sometimes or let the "pluma" ,meaning faucet, open. I am from Mayaguez, so you know.

Edited July 4, 2014 by Oldtimer

[aawhite]

I wonder what "fountain pen" is in Klingon and in Vulcan? Or for that matter, in middle-earth Elven?

 

Sorry, could not resist.

[sharonspens]

In Icelandic:

When everyone dipped their pens, it was penni.

Fountain pen is lindarpenni, lind meaning spring or fount.

In the seventies we youngsters usually spoke of blekpenni, meaning ink pen, to, I believe, contrast it with kúlupenni, ballpen.

Today, the young just stare at the thing and don't have a word for it.

HAHAHAHA

[Amyj]

Ink pen, "ohh, one of those pens", we've heard it all. One of my friends has a new name for it - water pens, for the amount of water needed to clean up the messes made with them.

[cbaytan]

I wonder what "fountain pen" is in Klingon and in Vulcan? Or for that matter, in middle-earth Elven?

 

Sorry, could not resist.

Ahjsgdtet er98*?75rr in Klingon means "Stuffed Quasar" and

Jdwjıew jkhdh ah hj in Vulcan in Vulcan that means "Ancient paint sticks"

[aawhite]

Ahjsgdtet er98*?75rr in Klingon means "Stuffed Quasar" and

Jdwjıew jkhdh ah hj in Vulcan in Vulcan that means "Ancient paint sticks"

 

They are close enough.

 

In Filipino, a fountain pen has no native word. The older generation (up to 1940's) will probably use the Spanish word pluma. Majority of Filipinos can speak English and the later generations would use the English, fountain pen.