"weather" in Hawaiian?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Sep 7 00:09:03 UTC 2011


On Sep 6, 2011, at 7:52 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> It's like when the Great Communicator explained to the nation that the
> Russian language has no word for "peace."
>
Freedom, IIRC, and various reporters mentioned that "svoboda" means freedom in Russian.  (I remember a New Yorker Talk of the Town piece on that at the time.)

LH

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