Kansai Scene
Naa, ya naa
Linguists have decided that Kansai’s characteristic naa is the world’s third most difficult word to translate. One thousand linguists consulted in the survey by Today Translations decided that the most difficult word was ilunga from DR Congo. It 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". In second place is tshlimazi, a Yiddish word for “a chronically unlucky person.”
On hearing the news of the survey, the reaction in the KS office was a resounding “Naa!”
(http://www.kansaiscene.com/current/html/news.shtml)
That's a cool website that I never really looked at very often before. Click around on it and you're bound to find something that interests you.
Do you ever look at pictures of someplace on the internet, while you're bored and stuck in an office all day... And think, "If I could be instantly transported there, carrying only the things I have on myself right now, I could still get around... Even if it was the middle of the night." And do you ever think that if someone gave you the chance to do it, you probably would, and consequences be damned? I do.
Sigh...
Linguists have decided that Kansai’s characteristic naa is the world’s third most difficult word to translate. One thousand linguists consulted in the survey by Today Translations decided that the most difficult word was ilunga from DR Congo. It 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". In second place is tshlimazi, a Yiddish word for “a chronically unlucky person.”
On hearing the news of the survey, the reaction in the KS office was a resounding “Naa!”
(http://www.kansaiscene.com/current/html/news.shtml)
That's a cool website that I never really looked at very often before. Click around on it and you're bound to find something that interests you.
Do you ever look at pictures of someplace on the internet, while you're bored and stuck in an office all day... And think, "If I could be instantly transported there, carrying only the things I have on myself right now, I could still get around... Even if it was the middle of the night." And do you ever think that if someone gave you the chance to do it, you probably would, and consequences be damned? I do.
Sigh...