Mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah, mwah… MmmmmWAH! Martha shares the German verb that means to plant one last kiss in a series of them. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “One Last Kiss”
So, Grant, I’m reading this book from 1898 called The Kiss and Its History.
Oh, nice.
Right up your alley, right?
And it talks in there about all these different words for different kinds of kisses in different languages.
And I love this line from the book. He says, would it be possible to think of a more excellent word than this, nachküssen, which is to kiss in a kind of supplementary way or to complete a series of kisses?
I love that.
You know that last kiss? You know your kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, and then one more just for emphasis.
It’s the punctuation on the sentence, right?
We told you grammar was sexy.
That’s a German word, I take it.
Of course, nachkussen.
Very nice.
Love it.
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