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tsundoku
This week's edition of the guardian weekly has in the Books section an article entitled 'Are some words untranslatable?'
One of the words the author (Lucy Greaves) discusses is 'tsundoku', the Japanese word for 'the act of leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piling it up together with other such unread books'.
Don't you wish English had a word like that?
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