THE PROCASTINATOR

Thursday, January 01, 2009

ILUNGA

The world's most difficult word to translate has been identified as "ilunga" from the Tshiluba language spoken in south-eastern DR Congo. Ilunga means "a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time".

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