English tends to suck up the nice words from other languages, then give them slightly specific meanings compared to their original use. It's also why our pronunciation is all over the place!
I just finished reading Dostoevsky's "The Idiot". I enjoyed it a lot, but it definitely seems weaker than some of his other works. It felt to me that he didn't really know how to wrap it up after Algaia and NPB's confrontation.



Word of the Day117 Most beautiful words in the English languageJul 15, 2016 at 8:13 AM