Words
The Independent of the U.K. has a preview of a book about words they have in other languages that they don't have in
English.
Interesting stuff. Some of them are really obscure, like
LOMILOMI Hawaiian
The chief's masseur, whose duty it was to take care of his spittle and excrement.
But then, some of them, you wonder, "How is it we don't have a word for that?" Like this one:
LATAH Indonesian
Uncontrollable habit of saying embarrassing things.
Man, I got that one in spades.
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