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To promote Google Input, a virtual keyboard that lets you type using keyboards standard in other languages, released a video that underlines the difficulty of translating different words, particularly emotions.
Three speakers -- one of Mandarin, another of Fiji Hindi and a third of Greek -- attempt to describe one word in their respective languages that lacks an obvious English synonym. The words are all positive: one is an approximation of "smells good," the other a cozy feeling produced by intimate conversation with friends; the third a kind of passionate absorption produced by doing what you love. Each word celebrates something wonderful about the cultures that produced them.
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The 1:35 video, which has been watched more than 37,000 times on YouTube since its release last week, was written by Google's David Bryant and produced by .
Google Input is as an application for Windows, an extension for Chrome and an app for Android. It allows you to type as if you were using a keyboard standard to another region -- say, France or Vietnam. You can see the extension in action in the screenshot below:
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