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For those with a weakness for strange words

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There must be many instances when the telephone, the photocopier or the computer refuses to comply with your basic requests. There may be nothing wrong with them, but they either ignore you completely or take the wrong order. Those hassled by such hostile behaviour from machines would be glad to have a word for it, and there is. Resistentialism. One might also like to know that there is a word called millihelen, a unit of beauty needed (at…
By Sayandeb Chowdhury | | Tags: Book Review, Language | Read More