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The 10 foreign words voted hardest to translate

robertstevenson.wordpress.com — Here is an awesome top ten list that is not only hard to pronounce, but even harder for the worlds scholars to translate. Give these a whirl.

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  • BennyGreenberg, on 07/19/2008, -1/+8Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
    Translation Please...
  • LadyLibrary, on 07/19/2008, -0/+7These are great. I knew a few of them.
  • alapoet, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5As I read the list, I found myself moving well past pochemuchka to shlimazl, and sliding rapidly towards klloshar...
  • skleiner, on 07/19/2008, -0/+5And we thought english was tough
  • robertstevenson, on 07/19/2008, -1/+5Check out the controversy.
  • shearyadi, on 07/20/2008, -1/+1How about "Takol", it's from ancient language of native people of Jakarta, Indonesia, which mean "a condition where a person was tend to beat other person but actually didn't", but in some cases, it's also mean "being abused by someone else"...
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