(Bollywood was not even coined as a word in those days).
When I hear the word "retarded" used to describe someone or something that is unintelligent, silly or even as a filler word when another adjective doesn't suffice, it literally makes me cringe.
Whereas, English speakers prefer variations of the verb "fuck," as in "fuck you," "go fuck yourself," then bending it into nouns, ("motherfucker," "fuckhead") adjectives, ("fucking this," "fucking that,") and even using it as a word extension as in "I guaran-fucking-tee you," the cornerstone of Russian cursing is... "cock".
On Tuesday evening, even as word of Tiger's woes was once again seeping into the markets, Mr. Robertson was honored at a reception in New York held by a group of former Tiger managers.
Look at them now, living in a been-there, done-that world that yawns and wonders if there is even such a word as derring-did.
His verse-speaking is clipped and often aggressive, yet he sows the seed of his tragedy before even uttering a word, as he pauses to nuzzle Pepter Lunkuse's resolute Cordelia in a show of overly fond fatherly affection, before getting down to the business of parcelling out his kingdom.
He was embedded with IRA paramilitaries in Belfast long before there was even such a word as "embedded".
Germans have even coined a word – translatable as "integration-discourse" – for the subject.
Not because "lone" was some beautiful turn of phrase but because of the lesson I had learned: Any word beyond the expected set -- even a word as tame and innocuous as "lone" -- apparently doesn't belong in science.
Even a word as central to the current debate as "austerity" comes with its own bias: originally from the Old French austerite meaning "harshness or cruelty", it carries in Britain also a positive meaning, being associated with the self-restraint at the expense of the public good which was required by the wartime economy, when nowadays it is used to justify policies that effect the exact opposite.
