Ten Relationship Words That Aren't Translatable Into English

  • Mamihlapinatapei (Yagan, an indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego): The wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but are both reluctant to start.
  • Yuanfen (Chinese): A relationship by fate or destiny. This is a complex concept. It draws on principles of predetermination in Chinese culture, which dictate relationships, encounters and affinities, mostly among lovers and friends.
  • Cafuné (Brazilian Portuguese): The act of tenderly running your fingers through someone's hair.
  • Retrouvailles (French): The happiness of meeting again after a long time.
  • Ilunga (Bantu): A person who is willing to forgive abuse the first time; tolerate it the second time, but never a third time.
  • La Douleur Exquise (French): The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have.
  • Koi No Yokan (Japanese): The sense upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall into love.
  • Ya’aburnee (Arabic): “You bury me.” It’s a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person, because of how difficult it would be to live without them.
  • Forelsket: (Norwegian): The euphoria you experience when you’re first falling in love.
  • Saudade (Portuguese): The feeling of longing for someone that you love and is lost. Another linguist describes it as a "vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist."

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hepatitisbey:

I don’t want to learn in a classroom anymore. I want to travel and talk to people and learn that way. I want to learn as I go, gathering knowledge and not being rigorously tested on it. I don’t want to lose passion in the things I like because of the worry of exams. I want to fuelled by snippets of knowledge I gain from people and be inquisitive. School has stolen my passion for the things I’m interested in and I hate it for that.

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frigerator:

i feel bad for adults on disney channel like i feel like they wanted successful acting careers but they couldn’t get any gigs and had to settle for being the bald dad or the hot mom on a show for kids 

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sehboofs:

that one time a guy from my school was sent home for wearing a skirt and everyone wore skirts as a protest the following school day

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amoying:

imagine if trees gave off wifi signals, we would be planting so many trees and we’d probably save the planet too

too bad they only produce the oxygen we breathe

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pika4chu:

i saw this in the middle of walmart and broke down crying

pika4chu:

i saw this in the middle of walmart and broke down crying

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if ellen was president of the world there would be no wars only dancing

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egberts:

egberts:

put confetti in a shotgun to make it a shotfun

apparently if you do this the confetti will catch on fire and it’ll probably end badly so please stop reblogging this

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sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a hieroglyph, and the blood of a virgin

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emily-in-neverland:

Where Disney movies are set

This is actually beautiful

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tastefullyoffensive:

Movies That Can Be Described With The Same Sentence [via]

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