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Talk the Talk: Lost in Translation

Ordinarily I’m not into unusual words from other languages. Yes, they exist, but why make them into some weird curiosity? Even so, I thought this article was interesting

25 Handy Words That Simply Don’t Exist in English

and I thought there were some things to say about language categories and lexical gaps.

Plus the fact that English would be so much better with a word like ‘tartle’. Let’s all borrow it.

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4 Comments

  1. I liked the article — it's interesting that cultures share so many concepts, but only some have terms for them.

    One criticism, though. Bakku-shan does have an English analogue: butterface.

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