Friday, January 25, 2013

Link: 25 more words that don't exist in English!

On the heels of my last "untranslatable" post, here are some more fun words that don't exist in English! I like this post because it has a lot of Japanese. Interestingly, there's only a single word of overlap with the last post on untranslatable words!

25 Handy Words That Simply Don't Exist in English

4 comments:

  1. What English really needs is a monosyllabic exclamation that means, "For your own benefit, you want to immediately interrupt whatever you are in the middle of an pay attention to what I am indicating." Somehow I never manage to get "Look out!" or "Watch where you're about to step!" before it's too late, and my current monosyllabic substitution isn't fit for use in public...

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    1. Kyle, that's a good suggestion. I've run into that with my kids plenty of times. Maybe we can come up with something...

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  2. I think #4 is covered by the word "butterface", slang for "a girl with an attractive body, but unflattering facial features."

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    1. Covered, possibly. But the feel is totally different. Sigh - that was a word I didn't need to know about... :(

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