Tuesday, June 22, 2004

What naches ("What joy"... or perhaps, "what satisfaction"?)

1,000 translators have voted 'Shlimazel' as the world's second most untranslatable word.
(The winner: 'Ilunga,' the Tshiluba word for a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time; to tolerate it a second time; but never a third time.)

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