Re: A new translation exercise (was: lexicons)

Irina Rempt wrote:
> > Ohoe.
> > not-like-and-decide-for-other-thing
>
> Very succinct. Is there any other language that expresses this with
> a single word?
Well, polyagglutinative languages probably do.  :-)  But I suppose you
mean "a single morpheme", yes?  I can't think of any, but I wouldn't be
surprised.  There are words in some languages that require dozens of
words in another to explain.

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