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25 Words That Don’t Mean What They Originally Did
Did you know that 1000 years ago vegetarians ate meat? Well, don’t be nice and make sure you read this awful list because if you don’t you won’t understand anything in this introduction. These are 25 words that don’t mean what they originally did.
11 untranslatable words from other cultures
“Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon the absolute truth.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
The relationship between words and their meaning is a fascinating one, and linguists have spent countless years deconstructing it, taking it apart letter by letter, and trying to figure out why there are so many feelings and ideas that we cannot even put words to, and that some languages cannot identify. Somehow narrowing it down to just a handful, Maptia has illustrated 11 of these wonderful, untranslatable, if slightly elusive, words.
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