quotes at random, no. 23
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fiefoePelinti - Buli, Ghana: to move very hot food around inside one's mouth.
Tartle - Scottish: to hesitate when you are introducing someone whose name you can't quite remember.
Gamadj - Obibway, North America: dancing with a scalp in one's hands, in order to receive presents.
Oka/SHETE - Ndonga, Nigeria: urination difficulties caused by eating frogs before the rain has duly fallen.
Pisan Zapra - Malay: the time needed to eat a banana.
Baffona - Italian: an attractive moustachioed woman.
Through the tinted windows the skyline twinkled in blocks and spires that shifted and parallaxed behind us as the boat pulled away, drifting lazily off like the fireworks, glimmering and glinting and finally fading until we could only infer the city behind us.
The uber-scholar Qian Zhongshu famously transliterated T.S. Eliot’s surname as 爱利恶德.
The US Korean War leaflets encouraged Chinese soldiers who wanted to stop fighting but couldn’t bear the shame of crying "投降 *I surrender!” to instead shout out 爱责仁德.
绿水逶迤 / 芳草长堤 / 隐隐笙歌处处随
The limpid waters gently wend; / Grass grows fragrant at water’s end, / And all around, faint strains of song attend.
Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes: "And he sent forth his spirit among the unknown arts." A beautiful quote from Ovid.
Lupus est homo homini: "Man is wolf to man." No one knew this better than the Romans.
Sic transit gloria: "Glory fades," popularized by Max Fischer, founder, Rushmore Double-Team Dodgeball Society.
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Tartle - Scottish: to hesitate when you are introducing someone whose name you can't quite remember.
Gamadj - Obibway, North America: dancing with a scalp in one's hands, in order to receive presents.
Oka/SHETE - Ndonga, Nigeria: urination difficulties caused by eating frogs before the rain has duly fallen.
Pisan Zapra - Malay: the time needed to eat a banana.
Baffona - Italian: an attractive moustachioed woman.
Through the tinted windows the skyline twinkled in blocks and spires that shifted and parallaxed behind us as the boat pulled away, drifting lazily off like the fireworks, glimmering and glinting and finally fading until we could only infer the city behind us.
The uber-scholar Qian Zhongshu famously transliterated T.S. Eliot’s surname as 爱利恶德.
The US Korean War leaflets encouraged Chinese soldiers who wanted to stop fighting but couldn’t bear the shame of crying "投降 *I surrender!” to instead shout out 爱责仁德.
绿水逶迤 / 芳草长堤 / 隐隐笙歌处处随
The limpid waters gently wend; / Grass grows fragrant at water’s end, / And all around, faint strains of song attend.
Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes: "And he sent forth his spirit among the unknown arts." A beautiful quote from Ovid.
Lupus est homo homini: "Man is wolf to man." No one knew this better than the Romans.
Sic transit gloria: "Glory fades," popularized by Max Fischer, founder, Rushmore Double-Team Dodgeball Society.
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