Ilunga is the Most Untranslatable Word
1,000 linguists agree, Ilunga is the world’s most untranslatable word. The word, from the Tshiluba language spoken in south-eastern DR Congo, means a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time.
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