[Ads-l] No word for X

[victor steinbok]

Have you seen what passes for "sexy" for speakers of some of these
languages? No wonder they don't have a word for it! Or it becomes parody,
as in SBC's Borat "sexy time".

VS-)

On Sat, Jul 20, 2019, 00:06 Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> > There appears to be no word in Latin for "sexy."
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> Um-research suggests that there appears to be no word for "sexy" in any
> language other than English.
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> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 1:16 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > There appears to be no word in Latin for "sexy."
> >
> > JL
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 11:02 AM victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Going back to the well...
> > >
> > > =E2=80=9CIn the Hebrew language, there is no word for
> history,=E2=80=9D=
>  Wilf explained.
> > > =E2=80=9CThe only word for history in the Jewish language is zakar,
> and=
>  that
> > means
> > > remember. We don=E2=80=99t have a history unless we tell the stories."
> > >
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