Yuputka!
This week’s questions (and their explanatory introductions) are inspired by this Mental Floss article about words in other languages without English equivalents.
- Iktsuarpok is Inuit for that feeling of anticipation when you’re waiting for someone to show up at your house and you keep going outside to see if they’re there yet. Who last invoked iktsuarpok in you? my bestie, we were going on a road trip
- Georgians call it shemomedjamo when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it. When did you memorably shemomedjamo? today's lunch was a fiesta Mexican rice bowl that was soooooo good, I couldn't stop eating!
- Zhaghzhagh is Persian for the chattering of teeth from the cold or from rage. When were you last so cold (or so enraged) you experienced zhaghzhagh? after my flu shot, I had a wicked case of the chills
- A bilita mpash in Bantu is the opposite of a nightmare: an amazing dream. Whenever a dream question shows up in memes, half the respondents say they don’t remember their dreams, but here we go anyway. What is one bilita mpash you remember? I dreamed that one of my favorite students and I were shopping for books and office supplies
- In Thailand, the feeling you get when you don’t want someone to do something for you because it would be a pain for them is greng-jai. When did you recently resist greng-jai and ask someone anyway? earlier this week I asked someone to assemble my new desk chair at school
Thanks for participating, and may your weekend be safe and LAGOM!
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