[Ads-l] No word for X

[Jonathan Lighter]

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
>
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> On Sat, Jul 20, 2019, 11:43 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > 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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