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October 01, 2005

Whatâ€™s the Word Iâ€™m Looking For?

The Independent profiles an upcoming book on â€œwords for which there is no equivalent in the English language,â€ and runs a nice list of some of the more peculiar. Highlights:

Iktsuarpok: Siberian for those people who canâ€™t sit still waiting for a visitor, getting up "to go outside often to see if someone is coming."

Zechpreller: German. â€œA person who leaves a restaurant without paying.â€

Alghunj: Persian. The â€œfeigned anger of a mistress.â€

Some of them, sort of like that old notion of Eskimos having a billion words for snow, speak to something in their underlying culture, that they should need a specific word for that. Odd.

(Via Arts&Letters Daily)

posted by Dr. Reo Symes at 06:20 PM

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