Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2016

Every language has words that another has to explain in a sentence. This one has a good many, and most of them are about weather, food or the exact degree of somebody's hospitality.

You can tell a great deal about a place from what it has found worth naming precisely.

I still translate in my head more often than I would like, and every so often I catch myself reaching first for the Ukrainian word because there is no short equivalent.

Happy Ukrainian Language and Writing Day.