Paul Davidson
100 words 022
The book I haven’t read was playing as I lay on the floor, a baby’s climbing frame, trying to remember an untranslatable word1.
forgotten untranslatable: the poignant sadness you feel for the people your children no longer are.
Once down for her nap, I spent 15 fruitless minutes trying to find it.
Instead I found out that, in other languages, these lists usually include the English word stuff. Which is an excellent word. One that I’ve noticed non-native speakers often pluralise to stuffs, which is even better.
There’s probably a word for this.↩︎