Thread by @SYSCAbout

No one asked, but here’s a list of the BEST words in the world that have no English equivalent:

Shemomedjamo (Georgian): When you’re really full, but you just can’t stop eating. Literally, it means “I accidentally ate the whole thing."

L'esprit de l'escalier (French) & Treppenwitz (German): When you think of the perfect comeback but it’s already too late (me, all the time)

Fremdschämen (German) & Myötähäpeä (Finnish): Something close to second-hand embarrassment. Like when someone slips over in front of a large crowd. I FEEL THIS ALL THE TIME.

Backpfeifengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist.

Iktsuarpok (Inuit): Literally that feeling of anticipation when you’re waiting for someone to show up at your house and you KEEP GOING OUTSIDE TO SEE IF THEY’VE ARRIVED.

Schadenfreude (German): Feeling pleasure at another person's misfortune.

Ya’arburnee (Arabic): Being hopeful that you will die before someone you love deeply because the world would suck without them. Literally, "may you bury me."

Fisselig (German): Being flustered to the point where you can’t function or finish what you were doing. (Relatable)

Mencolek (Indonesian): This is literally a word for that trick where you tap someone lightly on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them. How cool is that??

Gigil (Filipino): The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is irresistibly cute (the sweetest word on the list)

Hygge (Danish): That pleasant and intimate feeling associated with sitting around a fire in the winter with close friends.

Cafuné (Brazilian Portuguese): The act of tenderly running your fingers through your lover’s hair.

Koi No Yokan (Japanese): The sense upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall in love.

Layogenic (Tagalog): A person who is attractive from a distance but not from close up

Lufymensch (Yiddish): An impractical dreamer with no business sense (again, me!)

Pana po’o (Hawaiian): When you scratch your head to help you remember something you’ve forgotten.

Shouganai (Japanese): “If there’s nothing you can do about it, don’t waste time being angry or worrying.”

Tsundoku (Japanese): Buying new books and letting them pile up, unread.

Seigneur-terraces (French): People who sit in coffee shops for a long time but spend very little money (this term may have been invented for me)

Tartle (Scots): That panicky feeling you get right before you have to introduce someone and you can’t remember their name.

Weltschmerz (German): “World-weariness” or “world pain.” A gloomy, romanticized sadness, experienced most often by privileged youth.

I love words and I love language!!!!! These are my faves, feel free to add to this thread my lil nerds xx