[Ads-l] No word for X

[Mark Mandel]

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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