There are some feelings that can’t be expressed through words.
Except wait. They can. Just not in English, because our language is often pretty rubbish and doesn’t have the words we need.
Like kummerspeck (literally grief bacon, meaning the weight put on through emotional eating) and schadenfreude (taking pleasure from other people’s bad luck).
And in matters of love, it turns out other languages have got a bunch of romantic feelings covered, word wise. While we fail.
Emma Block created illustrations for a bunch of ultra romantic untranslatable words for Vashi. They’re lovely, but make us feel a bit crap about the English… Read the full story