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Jeffrey Friedl goes camping with his family in Japan, and photographs a beautiful sunset.
The top ten non-English words voted hardest to translate
From Bug Girl's Blog: I have pubic lice in my mailbox Or, as it turns out, perhaps not. "[Also, a tip: if you walk into your new workplace brandishing a container of putative pubic lice and sand, you may want to provide a more detailed back story than "I bought them on the internet." Just some advice.]"
The top ten non-English words voted hardest to translate
From Bug Girl's Blog: I have pubic lice in my mailbox Or, as it turns out, perhaps not. "[Also, a tip: if you walk into your new workplace brandishing a container of putative pubic lice and sand, you may want to provide a more detailed back story than "I bought them on the internet." Just some advice.]"
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The top ten non-English words voted hardest to translate
This is going to drive me crazy for the rest of the day, as I wonder how accurate (or in-) the descriptions of meaning are.
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8 selathirupavar [Tamil for a certain type of truancy]
I'm going to be wondering just exactly what types of truancy and longing those are, and why they're so important as to require special words.
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Lucky for me, I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood. I didn't ever bother to translate this word into English. I used the Yiddish instead.
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Heh ... re: pochemuchka
Pochemu = "why" (ex.: "Pochemu ti khochesh kasha?" = "Why do you want buckwheat groats?")
-chka or -shka = diminutive ending, specifically, a pejorative diminutive ("Sasha" = affectionate nickname for Alexander, "Sashka" = insulting nickname for Alexander).
XD
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And I want to know what makes an Albanian klloshar different from an English loser.
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