The concept that famously has no real English name but does in other languages is 'ringing someone up on their mobile with no intention that they will answer it'. Teenagers who have to buy credit for their phones traditionally use it. "When I get near your house, I'll *call you so your phone rings but you don't pick up so it doesn't use any of my credit*. "
In Bangla there is a word meaning "affectionately angry", which I like a lot.
And in Japanese there is an expression 'mono no aware', which translates, roughly, as 'the feeling of melancholy beauty we experience in watching things fade and pass'. They use it to describe, for example, the feeling of watching cherry blossom falling from the tree, leaving the branches bare; it implies both regret and the sense that there is a new beauty in the process which may even be greater than the beauty of the tree in full bloom.
My favourite example of foreign words we need a decent equivalent of is 'shemomedjamo', a Georgian word meaning to eat well past the point of fullness, just because the food is tasty. Another great one is the German 'neadbau', a building constructed for no other reason than to piss off the neighbours.
The concept that famously has no real English name but does in other languages is 'ringing someone up on their mobile with no intention that they will answer it'. Teenagers who have to buy credit for their phones traditionally use it. "When I get near your house, I'll *call you so your phone rings but you don't pick up so it doesn't use any of my credit*. "
In Bangla there is a word meaning "affectionately angry", which I like a lot.
And in Japanese there is an expression 'mono no aware', which translates, roughly, as 'the feeling of melancholy beauty we experience in watching things fade and pass'. They use it to describe, for example, the feeling of watching cherry blossom falling from the tree, leaving the branches bare; it implies both regret and the sense that there is a new beauty in the process which may even be greater than the beauty of the tree in full bloom.
Is there any objects without a name? Or does everything have a name?
It's generally accepted that there are more species of insects yet to be discovered than there are already documented. So that's at least around 1 million different types of "objects" that don't yet have a name.
The end of a shoelace is called the Telomere. The word was latter adopted to describe the repeating pattern of genes at the ends of the chromosomes.
The OP was talking about objects rather than concepts or emotions. With regard to the naming of objects there is usually only a short span of time for which an object has no name. The English language is very quick to adopt either an existing foreign name or make one up. In Russian and German they tend to go with joining multiple words into a new word.
Those things you used to see in cartoons and old movies.
They operated on a rail track and you propelled itself along the track by two people standing on either side of a sea-saw type device and pushing up and down.
Those things you used to see in cartoons and old movies.
They operated on a rail track and you propelled itself along the track by two people standing on either side of a sea-saw type device and pushing up and down.
Called a "handcar".
Mine next!
What is the molded bit of plastic that contains alternating slits at 90-degree offsets that surrounds a cable or wire before it enters a plug (designed to prevent the wire flexing too much at that point) called?
It's generally accepted that there are more species of insects yet to be discovered than there are already documented. So that's at least around 1 million different types of "objects" that don't yet have a name.
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nope
it's not an acronym
it comes from Kipling's The Ballad of East and West — '...and never the twain shall meet...'
Knee backs folk call them
I call that ringing thing Dropcall.
Not a toilet, nor a WC, nor a lavatory............that big porcelain white thing it has no name.
It's generally accepted that there are more species of insects yet to be discovered than there are already documented. So that's at least around 1 million different types of "objects" that don't yet have a name.
The OP was talking about objects rather than concepts or emotions. With regard to the naming of objects there is usually only a short span of time for which an object has no name. The English language is very quick to adopt either an existing foreign name or make one up. In Russian and German they tend to go with joining multiple words into a new word.
They operated on a rail track and you propelled itself along the track by two people standing on either side of a sea-saw type device and pushing up and down.
Called a "handcar".
Mine next!
What is the molded bit of plastic that contains alternating slits at 90-degree offsets that surrounds a cable or wire before it enters a plug (designed to prevent the wire flexing too much at that point) called?
That's the pan. Why would they say it has no name?
A Google Images search for that doesn't come up with the thing I'm thinking of.
More specifically "Cable gland cord grip":
https://www.asi-ez.com/member/x063-Cable-Gland-Cord-Grip.asp
Bit of a mouthful!
To be fair they can't be just called to dustbins as they have holes in and the dust and rubbish would escape.
Do you mean the lavatory bowl?
http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/lavatory-bowl
http://www.sanitec-kolo.com/subcategory/wall_hanging_toilet_bowls/010030-020030/1
arfcdf see!
But until they're discovered do they exist?