superlinguo:

prokopetz:

Here are 7 emotions foreign languages have words for, but English doesn’t!

• [long-winded definition of word that just means “sad”]
• [wild misinterpretation of idiomatic phrase]
• [plagiarised entry from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows]
• [not actually an emotion]
• [stark illustration that author doesn’t understand how loanwords work]
• [neologism used once by one particular 19th Century poet]
• [obligatory appearance of “schadenfreude”]

Just your semi-regular reminder that just because a language has a word that can’t be translated into your language in only one word doesn’t mean that it’s ‘untranslatable’. I guess “untranslatable as an isogloss” just isn’t as catchy.