telophase: (L - not wearing pants)
telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2008-05-08 12:13 pm
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From the sublime to the creepy

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.]"

[identity profile] darksumomo.livejournal.com 2008-05-08 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
shlimazl [Yiddish for a chronically unlucky person]

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.