Twenty Untranslatable words – Despite our language having at least 250,000 words, there are many in other languages that we simply do not have a word for. Like…
Tingo in Pascuense – “the act of taking objects one desires from the house of a friend by gradually borrowing all of them.”
Jayus in Indonesian – “A joke so poorly told and so unfunny that one cannot help but laugh”
Tartle in Scottish – The act of hestitating while introducing someone because you’ve forgotten their name.
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