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MrPewty · Apr 3, 2006

I always loved the german language, having struggled with it for three years while serving HRH in Hameln, but my admiration became boundless today, when I read about the word:

backpfeifengesight

How can you not love a language that has a specific word that means "face that cries out for a fist in it"?

Algraze · Apr 5, 2006

...from the Zambian sekaseka, "to laugh without reason," through the Czech nedovtipa, "one who finds it difficult to take a hint," to the Japanese bakku-shan, "a woman who appears pretty when seen from behind but not from the front." And which of us has not at some point experienced what the Germans define as backpfeifengesight, or "a face that cries out for a fist in it"?

LA Times (04/05/06)
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Thought you'd might like to give this a look MrPewty...LA Times article

MrPewty · Apr 5, 2006

Yeah, it was the same or a similar article in the Vancouver Sun that caught my eye...

Algraze · Apr 5, 2006

OK, cool, nvm then...

Phantom · Apr 6, 2006

I've been "orschlusspanik", (German for "the fear of diminishing opportunities as one gets older."), for some years, now. !

Algraze · Apr 6, 2006

Why stop with interesting words, when you could use a madeup language? (Burgess)

No orschlusspanik... you still have cutter to go viddy a couple of nagoy ptitsas, my dorogoy droog... Interessovat firegolds instead?
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