Ilunga - my word of the day, week, year.
From Times Online - Newspaper Edition
THE Times has translated for you the most untranslatable word in the world.
The word is ilunga, from the Bantu language of Tshiluba, and means a person ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time.
Whilst I pretend to be a hard old cynic I'm actually a cuddly old wishy washy Taurean and so Ilunga is the ideal word to discribe me. Yesterday an Estate Agent pissed me off for the third time, first time I tried to understand his point of view, second time I queried it, this time he got a classic snottogram - I'm awaiting his response.
Tony Blair on the EU - he is way past the third time.
The Bear at Hungerford.
Timeshare salespeople - all telesales people.
Compaq computers
The list goes on...