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'One Million Moms' Calls For Dove Boycott Over Hair Care Ad Featuring Trans Woman
Jul 07, 2025
The vehemently transphobic conservative group One Million Moms (OMM)—an arm of the Christian fundamentalist nonprofit American Family Association (AFA)—called for a boycott of Dove products after the company featured a transgender woman in an advertisement for their Damage Therapy Intensive Repair Conditioner.
The ad garnered attention after it was shared by the social media account Libs of TikTok—run by the anti-LGBTQ+ conservative Chaya Raichik—which described the ad as an example of "another woke company trying to erase women."
OMM said "Dove is pushing a sinful lifestyle onto viewers while glamorizing the transgender lifestyle choice," adding:
"The male wearing makeup and flipping his long hair has sparked outrage among conservative consumers. Dove is also taking heat because the ad is extremely offensive to women as they view a biological male (portrayed as a woman) modeling the company’s product."
"In truth, Dove is pushing an agenda of sexual confusion instead of just selling hair care products. This perverted behavior is portrayed as a normal occurrence as Dove embraces the LGBTQ community by glorifying the transgender lifestyle in its most recent commercial."
OMM said it "finds it extremely dangerous to share lies and deceit (camouflaged as kindness, love, and inclusivity) while propagating what God calls an abomination" and called on supporters to "sign our petition stating you will not support Dove (owned by Unilever) as long as they honor and glamorize the trans lifestyle and gender dysphoria."
Many defended Dove in response and criticized the conservative backlash.
If the bigots from One Million Moms don’t like it, I definitely need to get some!#Momsky
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— Morgan Meneses-Sheets (@morgmeneshets.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
They don't see beauty in the same way we understand it. Where we see someone brave and proud of themselves and shining brightly, their own hate filters the same image differently.
— skippittidoodah.bsky.social (@skippittidoodah.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Trans people live rent-free in the heads of half of the population.
— Mr. DNA [He/Him]🌹 (@milesbenjamin.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Dinosaurs can’t make themselves extinct fast enough
— Sven Johanson 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🇺🇦 (@svenjohanson.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
One Million Moms is well known for throwing fits over companies that have promoted inclusivity in their advertising.
Last year, the organization was criticized after losing it over a Hill's Pet Nutrition ad from July 2022 that featured a gay couple adopting a dog from a shelter. In the 15-second ad, a gay couple is shown holding hands for about one second. The ad also features the couple happily taking a selfie with their new dog.
In a statement published on its website, the organization said that Hill’s Pet Nutrition “should be ashamed of attempting to normalize sin” in an ad that was published to YouTube on July 19th, 2022.
OMM previously also lashed out at Men's Wearhouse for featuring a same-sex couple in one of their wedding attire advertisements. It urged supporters to sign a petition against the company, accusing it of “attempting to normalize sin by featuring two gay men getting married” and promoting the LGBTQ+ agenda.
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Alyssa Milano Shares Poignant Tribute To 'TV Husband' Julian McMahon After His Death At 56
Jul 07, 2025
Actor Julian McMahon lost his battle with cancer at the age of 56 earlier this week, and to say that the Charmed, Nip/Tuck, and Fantastic Four actor touched many lives would be an understatement.
When the news of McMahon's passing went public, his Charmed costar and "TV wife" Alyssa Milano came forward and expressed her sadness and condolences on Instagram. The pair were a favorite couple on Charmed, and it was clear from her post that their care for each other extended beyond the screen.
In the post, Milano wrote:
"I'm heartbroken."
"Julian McMahon was magic. That smile. That laugh. That talent. That presence."
"He walked into a room and lit it up; not just with charisma, but with kindness. With mischief. With soulful understanding."
"We spent years together on 'Charmed'—years of scenes, stories, and so many in-between moments."
"He made me feel safe as an actor. Seen as a woman. He challenged me, teased me, supported me. We were so different, and yet somehow we always understood each other."
Milano went on to address her on-screen relationship with McMahon, describing him as "more than her TV husband."
"Julian was more than my TV husband. He was a dear friend."
"The kind who checks in. The kind who remembers. The kind who shares. The kind who tells you the truth, even when it's uncomfortable, but always with love."
"My heart is with Kelly [Paniagua], with Madison, and with Iliana—his girls, his world. He adored them. You could feel it in every conversation, every story, every text. He was a family man above all, and he loved deeply."
"Losing him feels unreal. Too soon. Too unfair."
"Rest, my friend. I'll carry your laugh with me."
"Forever Cole. Forever Julian."
You can see the tribute here:
Fans were touched by Milano's tribute and heartbroken by McMahon's loss.
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Milano and McMahon's Charmed costar, Holly Marie Combs, shared a video of photos on her Instagram.
"One of a kind is an understatement. Your unyielding zest for life and crazy-making sense of humor will be sorely missed."
"The joy and laughter you were the direct cause of will always be remembered. I hope you find our lady friend and dance in those red petals."
You can see the post here:
Tributes continued to pour in from Charmed cast members, Nip/Tuck cast members, and of course, the crew from Fantastic Four, who off-screen were anything but nemeses.
Ioan Gruffudd, who portrayed Reed Richards and Mr. Fantastic in the original Fantastic Four duology, wrote:
"This is terribly sad news about Julian."
"Even though we played each other's nemeses, there was always so much lightness and laughter working together. Every encounter with him was a joy."
"It was an honor to be Dr. Richards to his Dr. Doom. My heart goes out to his wife and family."
"God speed, Julian."
You can see the post here:
McMahon's wife, Kelly Paniagua, and her family have expressed their thanks online for the many tributes, but have also asked for time and quiet to process their grief.
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People Who Slept With Their Best Friend Describe The Aftermath
Jul 07, 2025
When two people have a deep and meaningful friendship, the question might eventually come up of whether or not they could be more. Agreeing that their friendship might deserve more, they might try to date or at least explore physical intimacy.
But crossing that line carries with it consequences, and it's only once the pair crosses that line that they'll find out if crossing it was good or bad.
Curious, Redditor Sweet_Cupcake749302 asked:
"People who had sex with their best friend, what's the situation now?"
An Awkward, Slippery Slope
"We don’t talk anymore. We went from talking daily to things getting serious one night after a party. We went from sex to dating briefly, but she has some unfinished business with her ex."
"We broke up so she could have some time to figure out what she wanted, and we’d talk on the phone occasionally to check in as we used to as friends, but you could tell there was a weird feeling in the air. One day, we stopped calling and haven’t talked in five years."
"I do still think about her on occasion since we were friends long before we tried to date, and I hear about her in conversation with our mutual friends, but I only think of her as a friend."
"I actually met an amazing woman in college, and we got married last October, and we have three cats."
- Fun-Storage-7909
A Messy Breakup
"Yeah... it's such a strange pain. It's not exactly the pain of a breakup, but something messier."
"One minute, you're sharing memes and pouring out your trauma at 2 a.m., and the next minute, it's silence and blocked stories."
"We tried to pretend that nothing had changed, but everything had. Eye contact felt different. Laughter seemed forced. And eventually, that was it."
- LovelyAuroraa
A Healed Friendship
"I had a very, very hard time getting over her. I was incredibly depressed, lost, and not sure what to do with myself for months after."
"We tried to continue our friendship, but it wasn’t healthy for me to be around her. I still felt jealous and felt a toxic sense of joy when things went wrong for her."
"Four years later, we are now very good friends again. There are very firm boundaries in place as I have a long-term partner, but we have both apologized and forgiven each other for how things worked out. Having space from each other was the best way to heal, and we can now have a healthy friendship."
- violetliberty
Not Quite Right
"We were best friends for years. We studied together and at some point worked together. When we worked together, I got too big of a crush on her, we kissed one night, and everything got a bit awkward after that. Following that, I withdrew a bit and found something else to do."
"We still kept in touch and still had many good evenings because we still knew each other incredibly well. After a couple of years, one of those evenings turned into another kiss. This time was initiated by her."
"We talked a lot that evening and the following day and eventually decided to give a relationship a chance. We were happy for a while, but never really as happy as when we were just friends, ironically. Eventually, we broke up."
"Today I am happy, though alone. I haven’t truly met someone since her, but I also really enjoy being alone. She met another guy and they are moving in together. I’m super happy for them. We still talk and catch up every now and then, but less than ever. No had feelings and friendship intact, though less intense."
- Jerk_oftheland
Changed Dynamic
"It became weirdly awkward, but we kept sleeping together for a few months. It just became awkward when hanging out in public. We eventually decided we might as well just be dating, but something never felt right, so now we haven't spoken in many years."
"Not a happy story like most of the others, but very real. Sometimes it just changes the dynamic."
- Southernhammer
"D**n, this hurt to read, because I'm in the middle of it."
- -DeerBra
Happily Ever After
"We were stupid teenagers when we met while working together and became besties pretty quickly. We witnessed each other's best and worst nonsense for nearly a decade."
"Somewhere in our late twenties, we confessed our love for one another out of nowhere while on a call. I lived in another city at the time, so he drove over four hours to see me."
"I was so nervous and excited when he got to my place that I kinda made him chase me around my apartment before we pounced on each other."
"We’ve been happily married for nearly 15 years, have a kiddo, and have two cats."
- WanderingMyschf
In Sickness And In Health
"She is asleep in her hospital bed in the living room. Hoping to be able to celebrate 36 years together in a few days."
- naked_nomad
"I hope that for you, as well."
- CooCooForCocosPuffs
"36 years is incredible."
- prstele01
Would Recommend
"She's my wife now. No plans yet on having kids, but we have three cats. Life is good. 10/10 would sleep with her for the first time again."
- PortaSponge
Adulting At Its Finest
"I confessed my feelings, and he didn't reciprocate. He married someone else."
"I eventually did find my actual best friend and married him."
"My friend and I are still great friends, and I actually love his wife, lol. There's no bitterness or awkwardness."
"I think we're all trying in our own way to make the friendships and relationships the best that they can be. Things worked out how they were supposed to."
- Starmiebuckss2882
A Slow But Good Start
"We're married, and we have a cat, two kids, and a house."
"It wasn't smooth sailing. We kissed when we were, like, 19, and it was super weird, and we didn't really talk for, like, a year. But we had friends in common, so we couldn't really avoid each other, so we started chatting again."
"Eventually, we would talk every day again, and then when we were, like, 24, we kissed again and pretty quickly got into a relationship after that."
"I think we moved in together four months after that kiss. There didn't seem much point waiting when we already knew everything about each other."
- fang_xianfu
No Denying It
"I’ll try to make a long story short. It wasn’t sudden, but the culmination of a couple years of gradual submission to knowing we were more than friends for each other."
"It was college, and we both had long-term significant others. Nobody wanted to hurt anybody, but there was no denying it: we were hooked on each other. It was obvious to everyone, but we couldn’t do anything about it because of our pre-existing relationships."
"In our youthful ignorance, we put priority on 'what was expected' of us, and tried to ignore our feelings and instead stay with our relationship partners."
"As our other (toxic) relationships degraded, we supported the other through the breakups. It was pretty tough on each of us, and a big social challenge to navigate. It was… hard."
"Eventually, everything fell into place. We had graduated, put some distance between ourselves and the toxic relationships that were holding us back, and started the life we wanted together."
"That was 15 years ago… and everything is perfect."
"We now have a cat. We're married, and we have awesome kids."
- gmcarve
Perfect For Them!
"He has two kids with our ex-housemate, and I’m their godparent! We got the timing wrong when we were younger, and it didn’t work out."
"Things got messy for a few years, but we love each other to bits, and seeing how much he loves being a father makes me so happy, and his kids mean the world to me. We see each other as family now, and both feel so lucky to be part of each other’s lives."
"His wife is also a close friend of mine. We’ve always been very open about our history (it was a bit of a love triangle at first), but this was a decade ago, and we’ve all moved on and grown up. She’s mature enough to see that love can exist in different forms and that all we want to do is to see each other and the children live happy lives."
"We can all move on from things, and not everyone feels the need to cling to feelings from the past. We actually did move away from each other’s lives (they currently live on the opposite side of the world), but it's actually his partner who has helped me arrange my trips when I’ve visited; we have our own long-standing friendship, too. I supported her through pregnancy, and she supported me through a very challenging time in my life."
"Our relationship might be unusual, but it’s not impossible to have a healthy and loving friendship just because there was history. She’s a very straightforward person, and she wouldn’t have hesitated to tell me if she didn’t want me to be around (and I would’ve respected it)."
"When there are kids in the mix, your attitudes change, and silly stuff from the past becomes much less important than having people who care about each other in your and their circle."
- Old-Original1965
The Real Thing
"We had been friends since eighth grade and became best friends around high school. We went to different schools, but would talk on AIM all day and night."
"We saw each other go through a couple of s**tty relationships. I honestly think those relationships were bad because whoever we were dating at the time thought there was something more between us, lol."
"We became friends with benefits in college since we went to the same school, and it was easier to have time together. One night, we were talking, and we came to the conclusion that we both wanted this to be a real thing, and that was that."
'We have been married for almost six years, and we have a son together. If I count the time we were friends with benefits, this year will be 16 years together."
"Sometimes, it gets boring because, since we've been together for so long, there's not much to talk about, but I wouldn't trade this. We both know everything about each other, our likes and dislikes, and because of that, things just flow easier."
- Marixlush
Totally Great
"On July first, we will be married for eight years! We have two kids, including a six-year-old boy and four-year-old girl. We moved out of state and have a mortgage in her hometown."
"We met through a group of friends, and our relationship slowly grew from acquaintances to best friends. When I first met my wife, it was at a pool party. She was holding this huge baby, and I was like NOPE!"
"A few months went by, and I saw her at another party. I asked her where the baby was, and she was confused. Turns out it was our mutual friends’ brother’s baby. My wife just loves babies."
"Anyway, we basically just started talking when we saw each other about everything. It was natural and easy to be around each other. Over the years, we dated other people as our friendship kept growing."
"I was in one serious relationship that lasted a few years, and after that, I didn’t want to be in a relationship for a while. At the same time, my future wife started catching feelings for me as we started hanging out more and more."
"After a while, I noticed it, and it led to sex, which then made our friendship more like friends with benefits. We could have been in a relationship a lot quicker, but I was scared of ruining what we had if we got together officially. Had a lot of what-ifs like, 'What if we have a nasty break up, I’d lose not just my girlfriend but also one of my best friends!'"
"We went on a Cancun trip together, had a serious talk, and agreed to take some time from each other. The next week, we met again at another party after not talking to each other since we got back from Cancun. I told her I couldn’t do it anymore and that I missed her. We got together that night."
"That party was also a bachelor party for one of our friends, so I went out to a strip club. She picked me up afterwards since I was drunk. We went back to her place, and I told her that I love her that same night."
"The next morning, she asked me, 'Do you remember what you said to me last night when you were drunk?' I looked her dead in the eyes and said, 'I’ll say it again. I love you.' She said it back, but was still hesitant about it."
"I replied with, 'First night as you as my girlfriend and you take me to a strip club without you getting angry about it!? Yeah, this is going to be great.'"
"And it has been!"
- Loco-Moco
Plus Cats!
"Friends for a few years, drunken sex, started dating that next day, dated for six years, and finally married for 16 years this Halloween."
- Eywgxndoansbridb
"But do you have cats?"
- matt011209
"At this point, people are just waiting for the 'we now have [insert number of cats]' at the end of every story."
- _Yohan_Akagi_
"Basically, if you had sex with your best friend, you either end up not talking anymore, or you end up married with cats. I don't make the rules."
- Hollywizzle311
Heartwarmingly, most of these attempts at being more were actually the right move for these Redditors, and they were able to grow their friendship into something even more beautiful than it was.
And for those who experienced it not working out, many of them went on to find new relationships they may not have otherwise explored.
And we cannot forget the cats. Oh, so many cats!
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Hope Walz Perfectly Claps Back After Laura Ingraham Rips Her For Supporting Mamdani
Jul 07, 2025
Hope Walz, the daughter of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, responded brilliantly after Fox News personality Laura Ingraham attacked her for praising the mayoral primary victory of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York City on TikTok, saying Ingraham spends her time "not caring about other people.”
Mamdani handily defeated former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City's Democratic mayoral primary last week, sparking racist and Islamophobic backlash from right-wingers who've claimed his policies would "destroy" the city.
The sheer success of Mamdani's grassroots campaign—focused predominantly on the city's affordability crisis—resonated with voters and Walz said on TikTok last week that his win shows just how popular progressive policies actually are with the general public.
She said:
"What happened yesterday in New York City happened because progressive policies are popular. I know it might surprise people but feeding kids lunch, providing child care, having accessible and functional public transportation, among many other things, are popular policies everywhere. They're popular everywhere."
"They're common sense. When you think about this country, you think about [how] it's a great place to grow up and raise a family and build your life, or at least that's how it should be. With that comes feeding kids lunch, allowing people to come to and from work in a timely, efficient, affordable manner, providing people child care while they go to work."
"All of that is common sense and it's popular. I've said this since the beginning—it's all messaging. You just have to message it right and there you go, bingo. We saw it and it's honestly pretty exciting that it is popular and you can win on it because we've all known this so now we just have to go with it."
You can hear what she said in the video below.
@hopewalz progressive policies are common sense and they are popular #creatorsearchinsights #fyp #newyork
A miffed Ingraham played a snippet of Walz's video on The Ingraham Angle shortly afterward and remarked:
“You just lost about 100,000 brain cells watching that soundbite. Sweetie, if they were popular everywhere, Trump would not be president."
You can hear what she said in the video below.
Walz later followed up with a video calling out Ingraham and Fox News' coverage, saying:
"Apparently [Ingraham] had a whole segment about that [her TikTok video] and I come away from that feeling sad for her, genuine sadness."
"There are people that are willing to come on national TV and with their whole chest admit that they don’t care about feeding kids, or helping people get to work, or providing child care for people that are reproducing and creating our country and [world’s] future.”
“Genuinely, I feel sad.I don’t know how you go through your day just not caring about other people. If you actually watch the video, the point went right over Ms. Laura's head. The polling is there. A lot of these issues are largely popular and/or could be largely popular. The left just needs to message it."
"That's what I was saying and I don't know if it was on purpose or who knows but it went right over her head. They always go to the most typical comeback and it's just so boring. I genuinely feel sad for her. Get well soon, Laura. It must be a miserable life, truly."
You can hear what she said in the video below.
@hopewalz @Fox News find “reporters” that have something better to do than admit they’re terrible people on live tv, it’s embarrassing for yall
Many praised her for speaking out—and criticized Ingraham themselves.
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Despite what Ingraham may claim, progressive policies are indeed popular.
In fact, the nonpartisan Levy Economics Institute of Bard College pointed out in analysis shortly after President Donald Trump won November's election that voters backed progressive policies despite his victory.
For example, Alaska, Missouri, and Nebraska all voted for Trump but nonetheless "introduced measures requiring employers to provide paid sick leave to workers." Additionally, Alaska and Missouri "passed measures to increase their minimum wage to $15/hour (in 2027 and 2026, respectively) and adjust them with the cost-of-living thereafter (a similar measure had already passed in Nebraska in 2022)."
Voters also "overwhelmingly supported measures to protect reproductive rights and the right to an abortion" in Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, and Nevada, and in some states, "the right to an abortion is now a state constitutional right."
To cite another example, while the think tank noted that school choice is a "signature Republican policy," Kentucky, Colorado, and Nebraska rejected measures "to amend the state constitutions and allow state money to go to private schools."
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Bilingual People Explain Which Words They're Surprised Don't Exist In English
Jul 07, 2025
According to one report, approximately 3.3 billion people worldwide—43 % of the population—are multilingual, meaning they speak at least two languages. According to the last Census, 21.6% of people in the United States speak more than one language, while in the United Kingdom, the number is 36%.
More multilingual people speak English as a second language than English speakers who have learned another language besides English. Worldwide, people who learned English as a first language rate among the lowest in multilingual rates.
By comparison, 66% of Italians are multilingual while 70% of Chinese people speak more than one language. English is one of the most common languages for non-speakers to learn.
Reddit user oliviamonet asked:
"People who are bilingual in English and another language, what’s a word that exists in your other language that you are surprised doesn’t exist in English?"
Spanish
"In Spanish, sobremesa. It's the period of time you stay seated at the table talking after you're done eating."
~ sapphicor
"In Dutch, natafelen is specifically the talking at the table. Uitbuiken is basically leaning back, letting the food settle."
~ de_G_van_Gelderland
"You don't necessarily need to do uitbuiken at the dining table. Can be done on the couch in front of the TV, too."
~ simpimp
Filipino
"A Filipina lady said, 'I was talking to my...' and stopped and asked me what the English word is for a parent of the person your kid married—the parent of your son-in-law or daughter-in-law."
"It's a relationship that we have no word for."
~ OlyScott
"Never thought about that in English! In spanish we call them consuegros."
~ maccaron
"To nobody's surprise...in Italian we have consuocero and cognato."
~ theknight38
"In Puerto Rico we use suegros and cuñados."
~ 1heart1totaleclipse
"There is a word for that in Slovak! It's svat/svatka (father/mother of your child-in-law)."
~ MikrokosmicUnicorn
Finnish
"Finnish language is famous for 'kalsarikännit'—getting drunk in your underwear—so I wasn't surprised it doesn't exist in English."
"But I was gobsmacked when I found out English has no casual word for 'tuuletus/tuulettaminen'—a gesture for 'yay!!!' or 'wooo!!'."
"They just call it 'goal celebration' or celebrating... Seems wild."
~ republicofrhubarb
German
"So the Germans use übermorgen which means the day after tomorrow. It turns out it does actually exist in English too- overmorrow but we never use it, which is a shame because it's much more efficient: today, tomorrow, overmorrow.
~ HMCetc
Italian
"A beautiful expression we have in Italian is 'arrangiati'. There do exist turns of phrases in English that mean more or less the same thing, e.g. 'do it yourself' or 'you're on your own', but 'arrangiati' is the imperative and reflexive of 'arrangiare' (to organise, arrange, make do, manage)—basically 'sort yourself'."
"However, arrangiati has the same heft and directness, and general sentiment, of basically telling someone to go f*ck themselves. No direct English translation leaves me satisfied as telling someone 'arrangiati!' does."
~ exhausted_wombat
Swedish
"Lek (unstructured play or game) and spel (structured play or game)."
"For example a tug of war with my dog is lek, while Monopoly is spel."
"I do game design and while I can talk in English about structured and unstructured play, I can't do so effortlessly with people knowing exactly what I mean with just one word."
~ elindalstal
Indonesian
"Bahasa Indonesia has kita—'we including you'—and kami—'we, but not you'."
"I wish we had words to distinguish between inclusive and exclusive 'we' in English as well."
~ NyanCatNyans
Hindi
"This has annoyed me for some while, the word जूठा (juṭhā), it has a meaning used for food tained by saliva."
"For example, I won't eat this because it is brother's जूठा food."
~ chim_anu
"For drinks 100% English has backwash, but not a word for food!"
"But the idea definitely exists of not eating something someone else has had their mouth on. Like when my kids friends are over and don't eat the food given to them, ain't no one but the chickens eating that afterward."
~ mataeka
Japanese
"口寂しい (Kuchisabishī) is literally lonely Mouth. It means stress or boredom eating."
"Eating out of habit or chewing on something to have something to do."
~ Gureiify
Italian
"Another Italian one that comes to mind is "abbiocco", which is the drowsiness you get after a big meal. It is a tiredness and brain fog exclusively associated with a full belly. Very useful in Italy."
~ exhausted_wombat
German
"Kummerspeck ... literally grief (or worry) bacon. It means the weight you gain from emotional eating."
~ Frau-Pfau
Swedish
"Gråtrunka, a Swedish word that refers to a man masturbating while crying, I was told this is usually used when a man has just been broken up with."
"First heard that one from some teenage Stockholm boys harassing people at a mall. I don’t think English needs to carry that word over."
~ eldaveed
"C'mon English team, we can figure this out. Sobsturbation? Sadjack? Cryin-and-crankin? The Alone Wanker? OH. TEARJERKER, IT'S TEARJERKING I got it."
~ CanRova
Polish
"In Polish, załatwić. It basically means to 'get something done, but don’t ask me how'."
"And 'kombinować'. You can't really understand Polish culture, unless you grasp the whole meaning of this word."
"It means to find a way around something, find a solution to some problem, but in a slightly mischievous, not always legal, way."
~ Aimil27
Lakȟótiyapi (Lakhóta Indigenous American language)
"Considering my language predates all the European languages listed here ever being spoken in North America and we sedm to be comparing things to American English, in Lakota (Sioux Nation) there are many words and phrases that, while technically have translation to a point, don't embody the cultural or spiritual implications of them in English."
"So Šúŋkawakȟáŋ would roughly translate to 'Spirit Dog' but is a phrase that describes horses in the context of their impact on our people and their spiritual significance. It doesn't just mean 'a horse'. There are also MANY different ways and accompanying words/phrases that can accompany it that would change the implication of the words."
"Another example would be Makȟá. The direct translation would be the earth but also means the soil, nature, the spirit of the earth and the creator spirit."
"Variations of its use would be Makȟáta: to be on the Earth or in nature. Makhíthma: to be in or one with the Earth/nature/the spirit of the creator. Or Uŋčí Makȟá which is used more strictly for ceremonial purposes."
~ Wonderful-Ad440
"I'd go with wašíču, which most people mistranslate to mean "White man" which would be HaSka in the Oglala Lakhótiyapi I learned. Wašíču predates European contact, but definitely got more use after."
"There are English words that describe components of it, but no single English word that captures what it means literally and culturally when someone is a wašíču."
"It's someone who takes all the best things for themselves, puts themselves first before the community."
"Which, as Wonderful-Ad440 would know, is a massive taboo/disgrace in Lakhóta culture."
~ MohawMais
"Love is another one where English has one word, but it gets used for everything to the point it means almost nothing.
"In Lakhótiyapi I learned multiple words that all translate as 'love' in English, but each one has a different us.
"Thečhíhila – I cherish you
"Čhaŋtóčhignake – I hold you in my heart
"Iyótaŋčhila – I love you
"My Até would use thečhíȟila with us, his three daughters, but iyótaŋčhila for our Akenistén:’a (Mum is Kanien'kéhá:ka/Haudenosaunee/Métis, not Lakhóta). Čhaŋtóčhignake is something I'd use for a community or a group. It's not as intimate as thd other two, but still means love."
~ MohawMais
English
"I got a reverse one. I speak French and we don’t have a word for 'cheap'—isn’t that crazy?"
"Such a simple word. We just say not expensive or affordable, but it doesn't havd the same connotation."
~ theyb10
Is there a word in a language you speak that doesn't have an equivalent in English that you wish did?
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