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Old 03-17-2014, 09:09 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Not having a word in a language doesn't mean that you can't explain the concept with a phrase, of course. Eg, there's no direct English equivalent for the very useful German word "Schadenfreude", but it's easy to explain in English as "taking pleasure from the misfortune of others".
Well, I would say there used to be no direct English equivalent, but now there is "schadenfreude". If some other language has a handy word, we can always just steal it. It'd be the same with tsundoku, if we could get enough people to agree.
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