19 Weirdly Specific Words Other Languages Have

In praise of difficult languages

The whole world thinks that learning English is easy because English has so many suffixes: almost all nouns form the plural with -s; Verbal conjugations are very simple; There is no grammatical gender, while French and Spanish have two grammatical genders and rich verbal conjugations. As for German and Yiddish, they have everything that French and Spanish have, as well as three grammatical species, three or four inflections and all sorts of infl…

19 Weirdly Specific Words Other Languages Have

A look at some words for specific things that we definitely don't have in English.