KMFDM is an initialism for the nonsensical and grammatically incorrect German phrase Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid, which literally translates as "no majority for the pity", but is typically given the loose translation of "no pity for the majority".
Take the Hill home, which literally translates into Villa Collina.
But the French call potatoes pommes de terre, which literally translates as earth apples.
The preferred, youthful term is "ike men," which literally translates as cool mask.
The word "empathy" comes from the Ancient Greek word "empatheia", which literally translates as "suffering in" or "feeling in".
The word most used in French newspapers and magazines on Monday was "blanchi", which literally translates as whitened.
But the casual look is not recommended if you want to mingle with the locals on the main pedestrian street, Gospodska, which literally translates to Gentlemen's Street.
Even so, visual contact -- called darshan, which literally translates as "seeing and being seen by God" -- is the essential form of Hindu religious experience, the moment of blessing.
Apparently this comes from a latin proverb "damnant quod non intelligunt", which literally translates as, "they condemn what they do not understand".
Feng shui, which literally translates in Chinese as "wind water," refers to an ancient pseudoscientific practice of harmonizing individuals with the invisible forces in their surroundings.
I was also relieved, as it meant I had not inflicted the curse of the brutta figura, which literally translates as bad figure, on my family.
