One more from the wonderful world of Mental Floss. This time it comes from Ghana:
Pelinti -- Your friend bites into a piece of piping hot pizza, then opens his mouth and sort of tilts his head around while making an “aaaarrrahh” noise. The Ghanaians have a word for that. More specifically, it means “to move hot food around in your mouth.”
Isn't that awesome? We all know the feeling of this, but until now I've not been able to give it a name. Granted, I would have to be in Ghana probably for someone to understand what I meant, but maybe we can make it a loanword. Oh, that reminds me, we need to get into the differences between loanwords and calques soon.
Have a great day of wording, folks! Use them wisely and don't eat your pizza when it's too hot...
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