"The Global Language Monitor estimates that there are currently 1,009,753 words in the English language. Despite this large lexicon, many nuances of human experience still leave us tongue-tied. And that’s why sometimes it’s necessary to turn to other languages to find
le mot juste. Here are fifteen foreign words with no direct English equivalent." -
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- Which of these 15 is your favorite? Can you think of other English multi-word phrases that could conceivably be reduced to a single word?
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