Everyone’s like “those Germans have a word for everything” but English has a word for tricking someone into watching the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.
English has a lot more words created for very specific phenomena! It’s not just rick-rolling. Language is always evolving and it’s super interesting! Here’s a list of hyper-specific/untranslatable words in English.
I hate it when I see an unflattering pic of me and my friends are all like what no you look fine!!! you look normal! it’s like……damn……so I’m that ugly all the time
A selection of very, very fluffy cats by Kamwei Fong, shared on the blog today:
on my way to steal your garden veggies
The King Shot nuclear test in Nevada, November 15, 1952, part of Operation Ivy. (Department of Energy)
