> Working on my @adobemax [https://twitter.com/adobemax?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] talk and can't wait to teach my audience my favorite German word that doesn't seem to be translatable in English: pic.twitter.com/hnKST8GX6c [https://t.co/hnKST8GX6c] — Tina Roth Eisenberg (@swissmiss) October…
Dotard and rocket man received some interest and currency this week after President Trump's ill-tempered address to the United Nations. Both were noted in the Oxford Words Weekly Word Watch [http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/09/weekly-word-watch-rocket-man-wildplassen/?__prclt=OB6y44kR] . But the Washington Post topped that with a guide…
> 'Hwyl' is a Welsh word for a mixture of excitement, enthusiasm, and energy. https://t.co/gwai6a4zEl — Oxford Dictionaries (@OxfordWords) September 18, 2017 [https://twitter.com/OxfordWords/status/909816829454909440]…
> The word qanuqtuurungnarniq means being resourceful in solving problems (Inuit language) h/t @mbabwahsingh [https://twitter.com/mbabwahsingh] #goodluckpronoucingthis [https://twitter.com/hashtag/goodluckpronoucingthis?src=hash] — Scott Berkun (@berkun) September 1, 2017 [https://twitter.com/berkun/status/903767213651275776]…
Senator Mazie Hirono uses this word in an interview with Steve Inskeep [https://goo.gl/9kHpxD] and says it's a Japanese word used in Hawaii to mean BS. Wikipedia [https://goo.gl/GydGgY] defines it more widely as "a popular term commonly used in the state of…
> Guest blogger Caroline James explores the idea of untranslatable words on the blog: https://t.co/ZIZbUefdG5 — Oxford Dictionaries (@OxfordWords) April 13, 2017 [https://twitter.com/OxfordWords/status/852512749909286912]…
> Word of the Day: buttle https://t.co/fVlhyFz9VS pic.twitter.com/TYORfnnxz3 [https://t.co/TYORfnnxz3] — Oxford Dictionaries (@OxfordWords) April 2, 2017 [https://twitter.com/OxfordWords/status/848418501895139328]…
There's a long explanation for a word that means a joke so unfunny that one cannot help but laugh [http://www.ozy.com/acumen/theres-a-word-for-your-crappy-jokes/72283?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social] at Ozy. It's Indonesian, possibly a personal nickname. I'll spare you…