Re: USAGE: Words for "boredom"

Thomas R. Wier scripsit:

> (I mean, it's
> clear that modern tribes in the forests of New Guinea had until
> recently no reason to have a word for "gun" or "penicillin",
Dougie's lovely list of lexical gaps:

# [H]ow do you say "skyjacking" in Hunnish, or "ribosome" in Phoenician,
# or "jazzercise" in Aramaic?

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