reverancepavane: (semaphore)
Ian Borchardt ([personal profile] reverancepavane) wrote2009-01-21 08:36 pm

words mean exactly what i mean them to mean

I have a new favourite word.

Ilunga: From the Tshiluba language spoken in south-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, this word has been chosen by numerous translators as the world’s most untranslatable word. Ilunga indicates a person who is ready to forgive any abuse the first time it occurs, to tolerate it the second time, but to neither forgive nor tolerate a third offence.

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[identity profile] shadow-5tails.livejournal.com 2009-01-21 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, that sums up my last year so well that I may have to steal it.

(Anonymous) 2009-02-27 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
That is my character in Phil Mezz's campaign described to a Tee! (Mik)