Thanks to the British Empire and laterly the rise of the American hegemony English is pretty much THE World language. By some estimates the English language has more than a million words and it’s generally agreed that no other language has nearly as many.
So you would think that English must have a word for everything, right? No – Not even close.
In this article we look at some words in other languages that just seem to defy translation into English.
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