Bollocks.
You know what that means?
Yeah. I was going to say "ballsack."
Is it ballsack? Yeah.
Language is a funny thing.
Some words just can't be translated,
and when you try to explain them to your foreign friends,
something is always lost in translation,
and it's usually pretty funny.
We're Alex and Marko, and you're watching Vagabrothers,
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We've traveled quite a lot, and we've encountered more than our fair share of
untranslatable words, from Chinese to French and Arabic, plus everything in between.
To get to the bottom of this, we assembled some of our favourite YouTubers
from around the world and put them
in one room forcing them to explain the unexplainable.
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It's been said that Brits and Americans are two cultures separated by a common language.
The same could be said about our neighbors up north.
Toque.
I know what that is. Let them guess it.
Is that a bit of skin?
The bit in between...Don't touch it.
Look at my toque. Alright boys....my toque.
No, it's hat...like a beanie.
No.. It's a real word.
That's a toque. That's a nice toque.
It's a hat. No, it's a nice toque.
This is a hat. That's a beanie. This is a hat.
And now for a word that is about as common as "hello" in West LA:
"Namaste."
Namaste. Namaste is a bit common.
Is namaste "welcome", or is namaste "hello?"
Or is namaste like... it's actually "hello." It's not "welcome."
Why do they say "namaste" at the end of yoga classes in the United States?
See, that's the thing to sell you.
It doesn't mean anything.
We don't say "namaste" at the end of yoga sessions in India, though.
And now a word for all you image-conscious intellectuals out there,
always trying to prove how smart you are
and how many books you've read.
"Tsundoku" means I want to read this bit and
put many books on the table, but I did not read it.
That's exactly what he does.
Yes, it's me. I have a many books on my table.
I've never read it. Yep.
Mark. F**k you!
Then there are our friends over in Germany who have precise words for the most bizarre situation.
"Kummerspec."
Speck? Kummerspec.
When you're sad and you eat a lot, then you get fat. "Kummerspec."
Yeah, because you sit on the couch crying and eating chocolate all the time.
It's like Bridget Jones. Yeah, exactly.
Kummerspec.
"Schadenfreude."
How do you say it? "Schadenfreude."
"Schadenfreude" is if you are happy about someone else's misery....
something that is very German.
Apparently.
"Frustfressen" is what you do before
you have"kummerspec."
You're frustrated by something and start eating to compensate.
You got an F on a test.
It's what leads to" kummerspec."
"Schnapsidee."
"Schnaps" is an idea
which means you have a stupid idea.
Yeah, it's the kind of idea you have when you're not wrong,
but you think okay..
were you drunk when you had that idea?
Kind of the best ideas.
Yes, sometimes, definitely, always.
Meanwhile next door in France,
the French are coming up with words to enlighten the art of lovemaking.
"La petite mort" = a small death.
When you orgasm you might black out,
like for a few moments,
and then oh... you're back.
And that was kind of a small death.
How do you do the orgasm thing?
Well, it has to do with the fingers and stuff like that.
You should give orgasm sometime.
Maybe I should think about it
Speaking of love let's swing down to the South Pacific and check in with our friends in the Philippines
"Kilig." "Kilig" Yeah.
It's so hard to translate "kilig."
When you go......you know.
I literally have no English translation.
I can't even put it into a sentence.
You know, like you see somebody so sweet to another person.
Oh, that's goal, you know.
That's relationship goals, and you just feel the rush of romantic emotion.
You know, that's "kilig." You feel very giddy about it.
Sometimes in love things are not so clear.
In South India, they have a word for just that: oodal.
Oodal is....hmmm...let's say you have a break-up,
and you still love the person, but it's a bittersweet feeling.
Like it's omitted on Facebook.
Koi No Yokan
Koi No Yokan... oh, so you have this in English.
You're feeling like....assuming that the person
probably loves you, maybe before you know it for sure.
I'm not sure, but maybe.
In Brazil you need a special word just to get things done.
"Jeitinho" is when you
I don't know... when you try to handle something.
You try to find a way to do it.
Yeah as a "jeitinho brasiliero."
You try to bend the rules.
You come through the rules to make something happen, magically.
Sometimes you break some rules. Yeah
If you can't get it done yourself,
you might need "baksheesh."
"Baksheesh" is tips.
It also has a negative connotation in terms of if you want to get something done you have to give "baksheesh."
It's more like a bribe.
Like cops when they take bribe from you
because they will not call it a bribe, they say "baksheesh."
If neither of those things work, you have to pray.
What does 'inshallah' mean?
It means if God wants this to be, so it will happen.
If there's one word God does not want you to know it's this one:
"Tartle."
Turtle? Tartle. A fartle?
A schartle.
What is "Voila?"
"Voila." It's like the dot at the end of the sentence.
"Voila."
Always works. That's it, you know.
That's "voila." It ends up the conversation like
Wow, oh yeah..."voila."
Alright ladies and gentlemen, those were YouTubers translating untranslatable words.
Hopefully, you had as much fun as we did shooting that.
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