>From: Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
>
>I had heard that Japanese doesn't feature it, and that the closest it
>comes is "a mistake had been made". Ten years of studying languages and
>linguistics later (but not, you'll note, Japanese (at least in any depth))
>has convinced me that the phrase "X does not exist in language Y" is
>always false, or at least always arguable, however.
That is true. Japanese has a tremendous wealth of profanity.
Athey
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