[Ads-l] No word for X

[Mark Mandel]

Well, what do you expect from Google Translate?

MAM


On Mon, Jul 22, 2019, 4:20 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, Google translate says "She was a sexy lady" becomes "ipsa domina
> erat a parum pudici" which it back translates to "she was the mistress of a
> small amount of sexy,"
>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 11:06 PM 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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