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08/12/2006 06:29:43
 
 
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>>>Found another two missing words in English yesterday: "trudnica" (pregnant woman) and "bolesnik" (ill person).
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>>>How about "genetalian", or "gravida" as a noun
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>>You said it: as a noun. IOW, there's no such noun in English.
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>>> and "invalid" (using a classical definition).
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>>That's not the same. Invalid is a disabled person - check in other languages. "Bolesnik" is just a person with an illness.
>
>The Inuit have something like 48 words for snow. Does yours have 49 or more < s >

According to one of my favourite UK TV progs, QI (Quite Interesting), in which many an urban myth is dbunked, this is false. They have no more than 4 words for it. We Brits have more words for rain :-)
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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