Re: They Have a Word for It!
| From: | Marcus Smith <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 3, 2001, 4:46 |
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Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>_They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words
>& Phrases_ by Howard Rheingold.
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>Anyone else read this?
Me and a couple fellow linguistics students sat back in our office reading
entries from that book one day. Much of it is hysterical. We didn't check
the veracity of the entries, but they're worth reading whether they are
legit or not.
Marcus Smith
Unfortunately, or luckily,
no language is tyrannically consistent.
All grammars leak.
-- Edward Sapir