when words fail me.

It has become apparent to me that sometimes, words just don't work the way you want them to. Like that moment when you can not describe how you feel about a person, so instead of writing anything on their birthday card,  you just draw scribbles and sign your name at the bottom. Words have failed on more than one occasion. Sometimes, words even fail the English language. I think we can all relate when I say that some faces, are badly in need a a fist. But no, English has no word for that so I had to type it all out. But, had I been writing in German, I would've simply said backpfeiengesicht. Because believe it or not, there many emotions for which English has no words for. 

Backpfeiengesicht (German): A face badly in need of a fist.

Age-otori (Japanese): When you look worse after a hair cut.

Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act that someone does for you that you didn't want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favor, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude. 

Forelsket (Norwegian): The euphoria you feel when first falling in love.

Gigil (pronounced geegle; Filipino): The urge to pinch and squeeze something that is unbearably cute.

Manja (Malay): Gooey, childlike behavior of women to receive sympathy from men.

Pena ajena (Mexican Spanish): The embarrassment you feel from watching someone else's humiliation. 

Tatemae and Honne (Japanese): What you pretend to believe, and what you really believe. 

Tingo (Pascuence language of Easter Island): To borrow object from someone's house one by one until there is nothing left.

Waldiensamkeit (German): The feeling of being alone in the woods. 

L'esprit de l'escalier (French): Thinking of a witty comeback after it is too late to say it.

Wow. Why does English not have words to describe those type of things? They happen so often you think someone would just make words for them so we wouldn't have to say foreign words that we don't even know how to pronounce.