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Word of the Day for Monday, March 14, 2011pusillanimous \pyoo-suh-LAN-uh-muhs\, adjective: Lacking in courage and resolution; contemptibly fearful; cowardly. Evil, unspeakable evil, rose in our midst, and we as a people were too weak, too indecisive, too pusillanimous to deal with it. Under the hypnosis of war hysteria, with a pusillanimous Congress rubber-stamping every whim of the White House, we passed the withholding tax. You are now anxious to form excuses to yourself for a conduct so pusillanimous. Pusillanimous comes from Late Latin pusillanimis, from Latin pusillus, "very small, tiny, puny" + animus, "soul, mind." | |||||||||
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  What are the hardest words to translate into English? "Hyggelig" is just one on our listThere's a running debate among translators about what word is hardest to translate. Obviously, the challenges vary from language to language, with languages that have less in common creating more elusive word to word translations. Let's acknowledge that determining the hardest word to translate is more of a game than any sort of realistic exercise.... | |||||||||
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