10 Words to Borrow from Different Cultures
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Better Than Translation
Language makes us who we are. It’s how we share opinions, feelings, directions, knowledge. The complex spoken language that we have is uniquely human.
UC San Diego Professor Jeff Elman told NPR, “The Earth would not be the way it is if humankind didn’t have the ability to communicate, to organize itself, to pass knowledge down from generation to generation.”
It’s also the way we pass ideas into different cultures.
In fact, sometimes a word in one language is so perfect, people speaking another language have that “Oh, I see” moment and incorporate the word, as is, into their language.
Here are some great words from different cultures that are worth borrowing.
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1. friolero
(free-oh-le-roh) someone who gets cold easily; caluroso (ca-loo-roh-soh) someone who gets hot...
