{"id":3055,"date":"2010-09-18T15:16:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T15:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2010-09-18T15:16:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T15:16:25","slug":"words-that-dont-exist-in-the-english-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=3055","title":{"rendered":"Words That Don\u2019t Exist in the English Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><strong>L\u2019esprit de escalier:<\/strong> (French) The feeling you get  after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you  should have said. Translated it means \u201cthe spirit of the staircase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Waldeinsamkeit:<\/strong> (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Meraki:<\/strong> (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forelsket: <\/strong>(Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gheegle:<\/strong> (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pochemuchka:<\/strong> (Russian) A person who asks a lot of questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pena ajena:<\/strong> (Mexican Spanish) The embarrassment you feel watching someone else\u2019s humiliation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cualacino:<\/strong> (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ilunga:<\/strong> (Tshiluba, Congo) A person who is ready to  forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but  never a third time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I love the idea of other languages, I just don&#8217;t seem to have the skill or perseverance to actually learn any properly.<\/p>\n<p>As a rule, cliche as this sounds, I try to live with no regrets. Take what you can from any experience, right? But I do go over conversations in my head and innerly groan &#8211; aka &#8216;L\u2019esprit de escalier&#8217; would be a useful one for me! (at least I have an inkling about French)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L\u2019esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means \u201cthe spirit of the staircase.\u201d Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods. Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love. Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2590,2591,1590],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-languages","tag-regret","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}