meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Science Quickly

There's a Word for Today

Science Quickly

Scientific American

Science

4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 2 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

English lacks some words that other languages pack with meaning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in.

0:05.8

Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years.

0:11.0

Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program.

0:19.6

To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.

0:22.7

.jp.j. That's y-A-K-U-Lt.c-O.jp. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt.

0:33.4

This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski.

0:39.3

Iqqq. If you've ever called in a pizza order and then stepped out the door a couple of times to see if the pizza delivery guy was there yet, well, you've experienced Iqzwarpok.

0:51.1

It's an Inuit word that, quote, refers to the anticipation one feels when waiting for someone,

0:56.9

whereby one keeps going outside to check if they've arrived.

1:00.7

End quote.

1:01.7

That's what University of East London psychologist Tim Lomas wrote in 2016 in the Journal of Positive

1:08.7

Psychology.

1:10.4

Itzwarpok was just one entry in his paper titled

1:13.6

Towards a Positive Cross-Cultural Lexicography,

1:17.7

enriching our emotional landscape through 216

1:21.0

untranslatable words pertaining to well-being,

1:24.7

untranslatable as single words in English, that is.

1:28.5

Other examples include the Georgian word Shamanajamo, meaning to be full, but to keep eating,

1:34.3

because the food is so good.

1:36.2

Bantu's Mabuki Mavuki, whipping off your clothes to dance, and Waldainseim Kite.

1:43.5

That's a German word for the mysterious and possibly slightly

1:47.0

creepy solitude you may feel when you're in the woods by yourself. Early this morning,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Scientific American, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Scientific American and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.