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This is actually a pretty awesome resource! It was pretty interesting to see "-ish" on there. It never occurred to me that there's likely not an exact equivalen
by NylaTheWolf 5y ago
This is actually a pretty awesome resource! It was pretty interesting to see "-ish" on there. It never occurred to me that there's likely not an exact equivalent to "-ish" in other languages.
- lucb1e 5y agoIf you click to the reddit thread for that word, people mention translations in various languages. I saw this shared on reddit a few days ago, it's a cool idea but the actual words... there exist very few that are actually untranslateable. If you know more than one or two languages, you probably spot some of them pretty fast. (It's funny you mention specifically -ish, that's one of the words I was skeptical about and clicked through to the thread on, and thus knew that people in the thread mentioned various translations.)
- qqii 5y agoI find it very strange that this HN thread is full of people taking the website name hyper literally. The about page mentions that this is a UI for the subreddit of the same name, which is focused on "Post quirky and niche words/phrases from foreign languages that can't easily be translated." Personally the discussion for possible translations is far more interesting than the slightly misleading subreddit and site name.
- dento 5y agoIn Finnish, there is -hko/-hkö, which is essentially the same thing. For instance: blue -> bluish => sininen -> sinisehkö formal -> formalish => muodollinen -> muodollisehko apparent -> apparent-ish => ilmeinen -> ilmeisehkö compressable -> compressablish => pakkautuva -> pakkautuvahko