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[prantives]

13 words not found in the English language

1. Waldeinsamkeit (German): the feeling of being alone in the woods

2. Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo): a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time

3. Taarradhin (Arabic): a way of resolving a problem without anyone losing face (not the

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[flavordav]

Duende I see an awful lot of, actually, offhand, I know that at LEAST both it and esprit de l'escalier have been absorbed into the language to register in the dictionaries ...

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duende
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/esprit%20de%20l%27escalier

... though there's a German idiom (Austrian in origin, as I recall) meaning much the same thing as e. de l'e. whic, ironically, I wish I could remember ...