Emaelivpeith Garret Jones:
>it's interesting to hear of words that english doesn't have good
>translations for. I want Minyeva to have lots of words like that, but
>somehow i have to "discover" them on my own or in other languages. Any
>suggestions on how to find them in other languages? About the only thing i
>can think of is for people to just list the ones they know...
Check out "They Have a Word for It" by Howard Rheingold. I especially like
"fisselig" (see http://www.linezine.com/5.3/themes/vocabularysummer2001.htm
for an excerpt from the book).
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AA