"I don't often use that word but then it is not very often that you get to meet one, " he said.

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Then students have the daunting task of learning to pronounce Mandarin, where one word can have four meanings, depending on which of four tones is used.

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In 1995, I covered the controversy when The New York Times and The Washington Post, where I then worked, published another manifesto, this one a 35, 000-word ramble by the mass murderer known as the Unabomber.

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As to achieving the end of poverty, one day the Americans really will succeed - and then you can be sure they will mint a word quite terrific for the occasion.

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And then the presen- tation is treated as if it were the Gospel and to change one word of it would be a sacrilege.

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