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The Quiz of Untranslatable Emotions
Is a German person happy or sad when they feel “Schadenfreude”? Which language has fifteen different words for fear?
In Word of Mouth: Naming Emotions Michael Rosen talks to Dr Tiffany Watt Smith about other countries’ words for complex emotions that simply don’t have an English equivalent. How many can you name?
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Word of Mouth: Naming Emotions
Michael Rosen talks to Tiffany Watt Smith about the words we use to describe our emotions.
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Nine fun font facts that are more than meet the eye
How do fonts change the meaning of a message? What was Comic Sans invented for?
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All in the Mind: Untranslatable words
Sarah's runners, avatars and eyewitness testimony and untranslatable words.
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14 expressions that have vanished
Terms and expressions that have vanished or been banished from your dictionary.