TWO WORDS FOR VALENTINE’S DAY. From the Mental Floss website comes a list of 14 wonderful words with no English equivalent compiled here by Haley Sweetland Edwards. Two of them may be useful tomorrow:
“…9. Koi No Yokan (Japanese)
The sense upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall into love….
12. Cafune (Brazilian Portuguese)
Leave it to the Brazilians to come up with a word for ‘tenderly running your fingers through your lover’s hair….’â€