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January 16, 2013 04:54 pm PST
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Useful words with no English equivalent
Surprisingly, they're not all long, Germanic compound words (generally a font of useful no-equivalent words): 8. Tartle (Scots) The nearly onomatopoeic word for that panicky hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you can't quite remember. 9. Koi No Yokan (Japanese) The sense upon first meeting a person that the two of [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/-fb09czyHgI/useful-words-with-no-english-e.html
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