What does that mean?

     Some languages are better at illustrating certain ideas better than English. For example, it can take a whole sentence to let some one know in English that you have been gaining weight because you are depressed or overly emotional. The Germans however have been able to take this thought, and condense it into a single word:
Kummerspeck.

     Kummerspeck is a word that is made up of two other German words. The first is kummer, which is german for grief. The second part of the word, speck, is the German word for bacon. So if you were to translate kummerspeck literally it would mean "grief bacon".

     If you think about it, this combination makes complete sense. Bacon tends to be a really fatty food, and if you eat a bunch of it because you are emotional or grieving, then you are bound to gain weight. If English had more stuff like this, maybe it would be easier to get across what we are trying to say.


1. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kummerspeck
2. http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2009/9/15/128975413506387435.jpg