[Ads-l] No word for X

[Mark Mandel]

As someone points out, there's no tone of voice or facial cues in email.

MAM

On Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 9:33 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Whose irony is this anyway?
>
> JL
>
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 9:07 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I assume you aren't seriously generalizing from one data point.
> >
> > MAM
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 20, 2019, 11:43 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > So English is more expressive.
> > >
> > > JL
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 12:06 AM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > There appears to be no word in Latin for "sexy."
> > > >
> > > > Um-research suggests that there appears to be no word for "sexy" in
> any
> > > > language other than English.
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 1:16 PM Jonathan Lighter <
> > wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > There appears to be no word in Latin for "sexy."
> > > > >
> > > > > JL
> > >
> >
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