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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Do they have a word for that?

"The relationship between words and their meaning is a fascinating one, and linguists have spent countless years deconstructing it, taking it apart letter by letter, and trying to figure out why there are so many feelings and ideas that we cannot even put words to, and that our languages cannot identify."

11 Untranslatable Words From Other Cultures

1 | German: Waldeinsamkeit
A feeling of solitude, being alone in the woods and a connectedness to nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson even wrote a whole poem about it.


6  | Spanish: Sobremesa
Spaniards tend to be a sociable bunch, and this word describes the period of time after a meal when you have food-induced conversations with the people you have shared the meal with. 

8 | Hawaiian: Pana Poʻo
You know when you forget where you've put the keys, and you scratch your head because it somehow seems to help your remember? This is the word for it. 
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