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I've always liked the Italian word "orecchiabile" (orreck-YA-bill-ey), which is equivalent to palatable, but for the ear, when talking of music.
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There is a sentence which is told easily in Indian languages, but which is not so easily in English - the English equivalent is "You are your parent's "which number" child?". The answer to this question, can be, say, "I am my parent's second child". I am meaning the question which gets this answer - this question cannot be easily phrased in English.
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Amarnath S wrote: this question cannot be easily phrased in English.
We usually say, "are you the eldest?".
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Bad news for that article.
I am French, and I never heard #29 "l'esprit de l'escalier"! 
To be fair I left France like many years ago, maybe it's a new expression?!
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That doesn't necessarily mean that it doesn't exist. I once had to explain the abbreviation aka[^] to an Englishman, and he claimed that there was no such abbreviation in the English language...
As for you leaving France a long time ago, that could be a part of it also. I'm Danish, but I've been living in Sweden for 20 years. The Danish language has evolved a LOT during that time (much more than the Swedish), and often when I read Danish newspapers, I will see words that I don't understand. Some times they are easy to figure out, but mostly not.
There could also be local differences, or maybe it's a Canadian French expression?
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You beat me to it. Actually, I've never heard of "seigneur-terrasse" neither, but then, I am not often out at the bar.
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I agree, even the man Wikipedia(the definitive source of truth for lazy arses) attributes the phrase to does not actually use that phrase. It's a paraphrase of what Denis Diderot wrote.
I have heard it used by English people but never heard it used by a French person.
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I can confirm you that "l'esprit de l'escalier" is a real thing, although I knew it better as "l'esprit en escalier".
I did not know "seigneur-terrasse", though...
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Wow!
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I can relate to number 19, that has happened to me a LOT... 
That - and Butterface[^]
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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For #5 can I offer "Batface[^]" which locally means "a person who needs a baseball bat smashed into their face", similar to definition 2, but without the gender specific component?
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'Batface' gives me an image of a person who has a face of a bat 
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Pick up a baseball bat, and listen to any politician on the news - you'll get the idea pretty quickly...
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No Dutch!? 
We have the words "dijk" (dyke), "polder" and "apartheid", which are known all around the world, but never translated!
Although we (and especially the SJW) are trying to make the world forget about "apartheid"
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Many languages have picked up the Dutch word for a Turkish turban, though - tulipan 
Also, beskøyter is adopted from Dutch; I do not know how you spell it in Dutch - in English it is biscuits. In Norwegian, beskøyter is not just any kind of biscuit, but a hard, very dry kind that can be stored for a long time aboard the ship - another name for it is skipskjeks ("kjeks" is the general term for biscuits).
Lots of other ship and sailing terms have Dutch origins. You have no reason to feel inferior
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Beschuiten or biscuits (pronounce: biskwie)
skipskjeks -> Kaakje (very dry cookie which you have to 'baptise' in your tea to make it eatable)
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That's interesting - in Norwegian, 'kake' is always soft, often filled/covered with whipped cream or something similar, and always rather sweet (more so than almost all biscuits).
(If you look up 'beskøyter' in a Norwegian dictionary, 'skipskjeks' is given as a synonym. I never was a sailor, but from the descriptions I have heard, is seems to be closer to your Kaakje than to the more common, more or less sweetened biscuits.)
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It often happens that the meaning of words are twisted when imported into another language, and more so in daily speech than in the dictionaries. One example: A Norwegian dictionary will still say that a "trailer" is something pulled by a tractor (or 'trekkvogn' in Norwegian - 'traktor' is the kind that the farmer uses out in his fields), but lots of people refer to any large covered truck as a 'trailer', even a single four-wheel unit. (Count 'traktor' as a second example.)
So in Norwegian, beskøyter is skipskjeks - very dry and hard, suitable for long term storage. The English Wikipedia explanation does not apply to the Norwegain meaning of the words.
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digimanus wrote: skipskjeks -> Kaakje (very dry cookie which you have to 'baptise' in your tea to make it eatable)
We call those rusks.
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How on earth did schadenfreude[^] not make it onto the list.
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You didn't seriously expect the list to be exhaustive, including every single word in every language of the world, that does not have an English equivalent, did you?
I am quite sure that if you go outside the Western culture (which certainly several of the 38 do), you can find hundreds, probably thousands, of words that could be included. Words that refer to cultural phenomena, or philosophy, where even the concept may be rather unfamiliar to Westeners. Or a concept is understood quite differently.
One example that I have been told of (I have absolutely no knowledge of Chinese myself): In Chinese culture, the difference between a 'truth' and a 'deep truth' is that a deep truth has several different interpretations, which can all be said to be 'correct' and not in conflict with each other. The more interpretations it has, the deeper is the truth. -- This is a kind of truth that I have never seen in our Western culture.
I notice that one Norwegain word was included in the list, I could mention several other without any hesitation, and probably a dozen or two if you gave me some time. Such as:
Hils ham! - Remind him of me when you meet him, bring my greetings.
Jeg unner ham det - the opposite of envy: I am happy that he gets this, it will please him.
And the most specific to Norwegian culture:
Polkø - the long waiting line at the (state monpoly) liquor store. In my childhood, before Christmas and similar celebrations, the line could continue out the door and a block or two down the sidewalk. Nowadays, many (but not all) stores are self-service; you don't have to wait for the person at the counter walk into the storage room to fetch the bottles, one by one, but some places you still see polkøer on the sidewalk before Christmas.
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"schadenfreude" is known in Norwegain as well ("skadefryd"), and can be illustrated by a Norwegian saying that can be translated to something like "Own success is great, but the misfortune of others may be a great substitute" (Egen lykke er bra, men andres ulykke er heller ikke å forakte). That expresses the sentiment of "skadefryd" quite well.
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