Wednesday, August 23, 2023

There's a Word for That

Sometimes it's hard to express exactly what you mean without a long explanation though often times there are foreign words that say what you want to convey in one word. For example: when your hair looks worse after a haircut is age-otori (Japanese), utepils is Norwegian for drinking a beer outside, eukonkanto is Finnish for carrying a woman on your back through an obstacle course, and I'll wrap up with one that most people can relate to, fremdscham a German word that means being embarrassed on someone else's behalf. 

  





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