Connection between thought and language.
If you haven't got a word for it, you can't think it.
If you don't perceive it as a concept, you won't invent a word for it.
For example: Dutch Gezellig
The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet — But There Ought to Be
By Douglas Adams and John Lloyd
Such as:
The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet — But There Ought to Be
By Douglas Adams and John Lloyd
Such as:
PEORIA: the fear of peeling too few potatoes
The Deeper Meaning of Liff: A Dictionary of Things There Aren't Any Words for Yet — But There Ought to Be
By Douglas Adams and John Lloyd
Such as:
PEORIA (n.): the fear of peeling too few potatoes
ABINGER (n.): Person who washes up everything except the frying pan, the cheese grater and the saucepan which the chocolate sauce has been made in.
Ajax (1999)
Blog (1995)
Microformats (1997)
Web 2.0
These are words that let us talk about things that already existed. They create the concept. But they also signal the success of work that has gone on at W3C in the past.
If I think of concepts that relate to W3C work that haven't yet got a name (which of course the Saphir-Whorf Hypothesis doesn't allow me to do), then for instance:
The sort of website that you see at csszengarden, or similar
(The clocks here in the markup are of the style 11:30:00, and
the SVG stylesheet turns those into the analogue clocks)
An experimental Google maps using XForms: only needed 25k code vs 200+k of javascript
A company replaced a process that typically took 30 people 5 years with XForms, and it took 10 people 1 year.