February 2012
“The world’s most difficult word to translate has been identified as “ilunga”...”
– BBC NEWS | Africa | Congo word ‘most untranslatable’
(via rhea137)
Shlimazl leads to the german Schlamassel which means trouble and a perso who gets her/himself constantly into trouble and unlucky situation is called Pechvogel. Pech is the opposite of luck and Vogel means bird. So it´s bad luck....
herrrobert:
All those moments by Mooryc
In my...
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via sweetsonofabitch)
“I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via true-grit)
“Complementary colors… they just don’t go well together.”
– (via clientsfromhell)
“Everyone is trying to save the Muslim woman; Western society must save her from...”
– Nadia El Awady (via egyptiansoapbox)
“You may not be interested in absurdity,” she said firmly, “but absurdity is...”
– Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories (A Shower of Gold) [1964]
(via idiotlanguage)
Ugh..tell me about it.
