[Ads-l] No word for X

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jul 21, 2019, at 4:19 PM, Mark Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> As someone points out, there's no tone of voice or facial cues in email.
> 
> MAM

…which is why God invented emoticons and emojis.

> 
> 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:
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>>> 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:
>>> 
>>>> 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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