> "My_Wife". Mine, too - three daughters :) > Or are you thinking of Busy, OverAchiever, hard-working, industrious, > diligent, insiduous (I'm 'lazy'. I checked the Thesaurus in Word for > the last 4 {g}). Ok, I give up. The Serbian word is "vredan", also meaning "worthy" (which has value - and, to Volodya - this is not "vredniy", in Russian it means "poisonous"). I expected English language would have a simple old word, not a latinism or a compound word. The reasons I can only guess - is it that we are basically lazy and must have a special word to denote the opposite, or the English speaking part of the world never needed the word for a nonexistent notion, but had to wait for Latin or make workarounds? This goes for the other question of "what do we do in front of these screens all day". We think, and we get ideas. You see the results, and what I come to think of :)