Found In Translation: Guess That Meaning!
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Untranslatable Words Quiz
Grace East: Untranslatable words was sort of an internet phenomenon, you know, maybe 10 years ago or so and it's still hangs around. There are so many universal human feelings that we wish we had words to capture and maybe our language doesn't. So a few words like this that we do use in English would be aficionado, deja vu, which is from French and zeitgeist,. which is from German. We've got a total of six words for a possible 30. Does that sound okay? I like that there's a big number of points for each one because that makes it so particularly valuable. Exactly. You can't just do one. There
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