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Hello and welcome to the untranslatable word challenge,

where players compete to guess the meaning of foreign words that have no direct translation in English.

Today's game will be hosted by 20,000 Hertz producer and linguistic literature, Racist.

Now let's meet our players.

Contestant number one is a Renaissance man from across the pond.

It's 20,000 Hertz producer Andrew Anderson.

Contestant number two is the creator and host of 20,000 Hertz.

You know him, you love him.

That's right folks, put your hands together for Dallas Taylor.

All right, Grace, take it away.

So my name is Grace East. I'm a producer here at 20,000 Hertz. And my background is in

linguistics and anthropology. And so Andrew and I cooked up a fun little idea where I would create

an untranslatable words quiz and then pit Dallas and Andrew against each other to see who could

identify the most untranslatable words in the following list. Untranslatable words. What does that

mean exactly? Good question. So this was sort of an internet phenomenon, you know, maybe 10 years ago or so, and it still hangs around.

But basically, there are so many universal human feelings that we wish we had words to capture.

And maybe our language doesn't.

But it's pretty common to find that word in another language.

So a few words like this that we do use in English

would be aficionado, which is from Spanish, deja vu, which is from French, and zeitgeist,

which is from German. So here's how this is going to go down. I will read the mystery word

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