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They Dont Have a Word for It

Published: Feb. 10, 2011, 1:30 p.m.

They Don\u2019t Have a Word for It; Book Announcement from Psammeticus Press; From Volume CLVII, Number 4 of Speculative Grammarian, December 2009. \u2014 With the inexplicable success of pseudo-lexicons such as Howard Rheingold\u2019s 2000 \u201cThey Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases\u201d, C. J. Moore\u2019s 2004 \u201cIn Other Words: A Language Lover\u2019s Guide to the Most Intriguing Words Around the World\u201d, and Adam Jacot de Boinod\u2019s 2005 \u201cThe Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World\u201d, a native speaker of English could get the sinking feeling that English lacks the basic expressiveness needed to convey the most basic human needs and desires. (Read by Trey Jones.)