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I mean words like "sang-froid" or "schadenfreude", that exactly fulfil a linguistic need, but unaccountably never got invented in English and so were accepted in their native form as soon as they were introduced.The best-known equivalent in Portuguese is, I guess, saudade, which means something like nostalgia, but is more explicitly a mixture of pleasure and pain.
It's like the Missing Link between the enterprise and the realtime social web just got invented.
As TechCrunch Europe's Mike Butcher said about the Chatter integration, "It's like the link enterprise and the realtime social web just got invented".
Anyway, you can apparently watch more of this panel on Hulu, so THREE CHEERS THAT HULU GOT INVENTED!
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The Internet didn't get invented on its own.
"It's getting invented on the fly here".
That's not how things get invented in the lab.
Folklorists are fond of the idea that jokes don't get invented; they evolve.
"The first person I would meet the day a time machine gets invented" is Isaac Newton, he said.
If rock n' roll can get invented, then why can't Americana too?
The best answer is a conservative one: institutions don't always have a good reason for existing, but there are very few institutions that do exist that didn't get invented for a reason.
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