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.
Some of these are fucking wild.
Huh, gonna start using these some of them are pretty fuckin funny
number six lmaoo
I love weird linguistics stuff like this~ I frequently use my weird love for Autological words as an icebreaker so I like having more “English is weird” stuff to gush over :3














