[Ads-l] tsundoku

Mark Mandel mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM
Fri Oct 19 18:01:03 UTC 2018


Maybe they're early adopters? That seems unlikely, though; I've always
thought of the BBC as on the conservative side, linguistically.

Mark Mandel

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018, 12:08 PM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ...
>
> 2. The BBC also covered this word a few months ago. *It’s not in italics,
> which seems odd.*
>
> Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them
> 29 July 2018
> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44981013 <
> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44981013>
>
> ...
>

Benjamin Barrett
> Formerly of Seattle, WA
>

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