Words cannot express…

PaddyC comments:

I found a question that can’t be googled recently. You know that situation when you’re walking down the street, and meet an on-coming pedestrian, and both of you choose the same side to pass the other, then both revise your choice, and again, and you end up dancing on the street with a stranger for a moment? There’s a word for that, but I can’t find it, and Google can’t help… so it’s not invincible yet!!

I’ve not come with a word for you, but The Atlantic has an entertaining column that deals in this particular problem.

Link: Word Fugitives (subs required)

There is also Douglas Adams and John Lloyd’s Meaning of Liff, inspired by “common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist”.