51 Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent
Sometimes we must turn to other languages to find the perfect word (or 'le mot juste') for a particular situation. Here are a bunch of foreign words with no direct English equivalent.
Sometimes we must turn to other languages to find the perfect word (or 'le mot juste') for a particular situation. Here are a bunch of foreign words with no direct English equivalent.
After hundreds of episodes—and with no end in sight—'The Simpsons' has changed the way we talk to one another.
The Words U keyboard will suggest new words based on "personas" like "The English Aristocrat."
Over the years, this mental literary fail has gone by many names: work decrement, extinction, reminiscence, verbal transformation. But the best known and recognized term is "semantic satiation."
Signers have regional accents, too.
The difference between sincere and insincere may be just one little punctuation mark.
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All words had to start somewhere—but sometimes, after much searching and analyzing, no satisfying origin explanation can be found.
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Marie Wilcox hopes that the project will keep the Wukchumni language alive.
Without a new generation of Speakers, the Native American language could die out in a few generations.
Few franchises have had the cultural impact of the various 'Star Trek' television series and movies, and nowhere is that more evident than in the snippets of dialogue that have become a part of the American vernacular.
Unlike other "languages," sign language—be it American or otherwise—is a visual language, and therefore, can take a long time to master.
So on top of influences of Aboriginal, English, Irish, and German, the accent may have a few pints to thank.
These scripts remain mysterious.
Nutella engaged a panel of dialect scholars to put together a guide to 135 characteristic expressions from 16 regions of Italy.
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What we say today shapes the vocabulary of tomorrow.
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Before writers ever thought to separate their words with spaces or punctuate their sentences with periods, documents were routinely arranged into visible, helpful paragraphs.
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Located in the brothers' longtime home of Kassel, the museum celebrates them as pioneers of German language studies.