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December 3, 2013 by sandwichcontrol

Wait, what day is it?

I have very little to report today.

I went to the dentist yesterday. No cavities!

I ate the “vegetarian” burrito from El Super Taco last night in anticipation of it making me have to make a giant poop. The pipes have been a little backed up since Thanksgiving, if you know what I mean.

And that’s about it for yesterday.

The exciting stuff anyway. I’m sure you’d love to hear about my meeting or my trip to the bank, but no.

So, instead I’m going to talk about words. Words that don’t exist in English. I found this website the other day and I just can’t stop reading. It is designed as a sort of collection of words from other languages that describe a certain feeling, sensation, or situation. Typically a very specific feeling, sensation, or situation.

For example, in French that feeling you have when you are on a really tall thing, that momentary desire to jump, is L’appel du vide. It translates in English to “the call of the void”. I used to play bass for Call of the Void.

Other examples that really popped for me were:

Zapoi, which is Russian for a two day drunk that usually involves a journey of some kind, thus you sober/wake up in an unexpected place.

In Spanish, the word Gula is used to describe those times when you keep eating after you’re full, out of taste rather than hunger. Like when you keep eating chips and salsa at the Mexican restaurant.

In Old English, the word for the crackling sound a fire makes is Fýrgebræc.

In Korean, Noon Ooh-Soom literally translates into English as “eye laugh”. It’s when someone laughs or smiles and the effect reaches their eyes.

And the last one I will torture you with is the Spanish phrase “Al Punto de Cajeta”. That is used when describing “a liquid thickened to the point at which a spoon drawn through the liquid reveals the bottom of the pot in which it is being cooked”. Yeah.

Okay. I have to go do stuff now.

See ya’ tomorrow.

More soon. ~SC


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