http://www.metafilter.com/tags/onelinkposts Posts tagged with 'onelinkposts' at MetaFilter. Sun, 02 Oct 2005 04:14:26 -0800 Sun, 02 Oct 2005 04:14:26 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/45558/Why%2Ddoes%2DAlbanian%2Dneed%2D27%2Dwords%2Dfor%2Dmoustache <a href="http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/article315207.ece">Charming and unexpected vocabulary from many languages.</a> Why did Persians need a word, <em><strong>alghunjar</strong></em>, to express 'the feigned anger of a mistress'? Could there really have been that many insincere mistresses in Persia? Why does Russia need a word meaning, 'dealer in stolen cats'? Or 'someone with six fingers'? And who can resist the Chinese <em><strong>xiaoxiao</strong></em>, meaning, 'the whistling and pattering of rain or wind'? "These are more than funny foreign vocabularies; they are tiny windows into the way other people live, and the obsessions that drive them." <small>[<a href="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/">via</a>]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.45558 Sun, 02 Oct 2005 04:14:26 -0800 language latah linguistics onelinkposts words Slithy_Tove