COLORFUN WORLD: Words That Don’t Exist in the English Language
Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods. Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love. Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love. Gigil: (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute. Pochemuchka: (Russian) A person who asks a lot of questions. Pena ajena: (Mexican Spanish) The embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation. Cualacino: (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass. Ilunga: (Tshiluba, Congo) A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time. Saudade (sow-da-jee) (Portugese, Galician) the feeling one gets when realizing something one once had is lost and can never be had again Another fun one: Sgriobn: (Gaelic) The itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whisky.WORDS THAT DON’T EXIST IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
