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There Is a Word For It In Japanese

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There is a word for it in Japanese.

Well, sometimes I feel like there is a word for almost everything in Japanese. And also, most probably, in Korean.

English is quite rich in vocabulary, with approximately 172, 000 word entries in its dictionary. Russian has about 150 000 and Spanish over 96 000.

But Japanese? 500 000. Korean? 1, 100 000.

So no wonder …

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