#WORDS ~ 42 of Our Weird Little Friends :-)

My Best Friend, Jane Watson, shared two very interesting lists with me that I’ll share with you.

I was happy she shared them because, as you can see from the image, this blog has had visitors from many countries… 

Dots are Visitors Since November, 2012 ~ Total Visits on Map = 55,310 — Total visits to this blog since January, 2011 = 94,158

You’ll have to go to the links I give you to read about all the words but I think it will be worth your time, for entertaining and educational reasons :-)

First is 23 Awesome Foreign Words We Need to Start Using in English.

Here they are (read about them at the link…):

1. Kummerspeck — German
2. Luftmensch — Yiddish
3. Tsundoku — Japanese
4. Chi Ku (吃苦) — Chinese
5. Toska — Russian
6. Kreng-jai — Thai
7. Pochemuchka — Russian
8. Goya — Urdu
9. Esculhambação — Brazilian Portuguese
10. Koi no yokan — (the site listed no language for this word…)
11. Backpfeifengesicht — German
12. Hanyauku — RuKwangali
13. Verschlimmbesserung — German
14. Pålegg — Norwegian
15. Cwtch — Welsh
16. Sisu — Finnish
17. Inat — Serbian
18. Mokita — Kivila
19. Won — Korean
20. Yakamoz — Turkish
21. Waldeinsamkeit — German
22. Lítost — Czech
23. Culaccino — Italian

Second is 20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the World.

Here they are (read about them at the link…):

1. Toska — Russian
2. Mamihlapinatapei — Yagan (indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego)
3. Jayus — Indonesian
4. Iktsuarpok — Inuit
5. Litost — Czech
6. Kyoikumama — Japanese
7. Tartle — Scottish
8. Ilunga — Tshiluba (Southwest Congo)
9. Prozvonit — Czech
10. Cafuné — Brazilian Portuguese
11. Torschlusspanik — German
12. Wabi-Sabi — Japanese
13. Dépaysement — French
14. Schadenfreude — German
15. Tingo — Pascuense (Easter Island)
16. Hyggelig — Danish
17. L’appel du vide — French
18. Ya’aburnee — Arabic
19. Duende — Spanish
20. Saudade — Portuguese

Were there any words in those lists from Your country’s language??
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Where Did You Come From?

If you’ve visited this blog between 12:01 am, EST, USA on 25 February, 2012 and 12:01 am on 7 February 2013, then you’re represented in the graphic in this post…

I periodically do this, hoping that my readers will share their feelings about the global distribution of the traffic passing through this Space—the table shows “Views” by folks who may only stay for a few seconds…

Of course, they may return and linger :-)

So, if you see any patterns or intuit any rationale in the numbers, please let me know in the Comments.

Country	Views
United States	13,887
Australia	1,300
Canada	1,156
United Kingdom	1,126
Germany	893
India	438
Philippines	223
Georgia	171
Portugal	157
Netherlands	134
France	122
Sweden	104
Spain	96
Italy	96
Indonesia	87
South Africa	87
Singapore	81
Ecuador	78
New Zealand	74
Argentina	74
Brazil	71
Pakistan	69
Romania	62
Israel	60
Ireland	59
Malaysia	57
Belgium	52
Thailand	51
Mexico	49
Japan	43
Denmark	41
Norway	36
Saudi Arabia	36
Hong Kong	35
United Arab Emirates	34
Finland	33
Republic of Korea	33
Czech Republic	29
Lithuania	26
Nigeria	26
Taiwan	25
Russian Federation	25
Poland	25
Egypt	25
Switzerland	23
Serbia	21
Turkey	20
Greece	19
Austria	17
Croatia	15
Venezuela	14
Hungary	14
Viet Nam	13
Costa Rica	13
Ukraine	13
Kuwait	13
Bangladesh	12
Virgin Islands	12
Luxembourg	12
Cambodia	11
Lebanon	11
Puerto Rico	11
Bulgaria	11
Morocco	10
Slovakia	10
Palestinian Territory, Occupied	9
Dominican Republic	9
Sri Lanka	9
Trinidad and Tobago	9
Iceland	8
Kenya	8
Jamaica	7
Slovenia	6
Moldova	6
Ethiopia	6
Chile	6
Colombia	6
Cyprus	5
Mongolia	5
Cameroon	4
Bosnia and Herzegovina	4
Barbados	4
Yemen	4
Iraq	4
Algeria	4
Bahamas	4
Oman	4
Ghana	3
Zimbabwe	3
Senegal	3
Uganda	3
Peru	3
Guatemala	3
Latvia	3
Jersey	3
Tunisia	3
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic	2
Belarus	2
Albania	2
Jordan	2
El Salvador	2
Panama	2
Côte d’Ivoire	2
Myanmar	2
Sudan	2
Bahrain	2
Botswana	2
Mauritius	2
Syrian Arab Republic	2
Guam	2
Uruguay	2
Nepal	2
Honduras	2
Malta	1
Angola	1
Fiji	1
Bolivia	1
Libya	1
Estonia	1
Armenia	1
Afghanistan	1
Faroe Islands	1
Rwanda	1
Dominica	1
Qatar	1
Saint Martin	1
Chad	1
Aruba	1
Turks and Caicos Islands	1
Kazakhstan	1
Malawi	1
Maldives	1
Bermuda	1

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Global Blogging for Readers, Writers, and Publishers

I was born in the U.S.A., lived most of my life here, visited 4 other countries, and lived for a year in Viet Nam.

I work hard to write this blog for a world audience.

True, I can only write in English :-(

But, I have visitors from over 120 countries of our world.

Little chance of my writing this blog in 120 languages—a bit embarrassing that people from all those countries can read English and I can’t read their languages…

Still, no matter what language one uses to write, we can all strive to address issues as World Citizens.

It’s been said, for all our differences, we still are very much alike…

The folks at WordPress, who give me this wonderful platform to use for blogging, began showing me the countries my visitors are from back in February.

True, a “visitor” to a blog is not necessarily a “reader” of the blog.

One month after I began seeing where visitors came from, I showed the stats.

It’s now been 7 months, with a few changes in the order of countries, and I’ll show them again—to let you ponder the physical space this digital platform lets you enter :-)

First, I’ll show the countries that had, on average, at least 10 visitors per month:

Country	Views
United States	8,837
Australia	870
Canada	720
United Kingdom	710
Germany	679
India	265
Philippines	146
Portugal	131
Netherlands	95
France	92
South Africa	75
Sweden	71

And, a bit less elegantly, those countries with at least 5 visitors per month:

Spain 62, Brazil 54, Singapore 53, Italy 53, Indonesia 51, Ecuador 48, Malaysia 43, New Zealand 43, Israel 38, Romania 38, Argentina 37, Denmark 36, Pakistan 36

Care to tell us in the Comments what country you’ve “traveled” from to read this blog?
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