Sometimes there’s just no word for a particular idea. Shakespeare knew, in those circumstances, to just make one up – which is why we have words like “assassination”, “cold blooded” and “swagger” today. English regularly borrows words from other languages, especially when there’s no equivalent. For example: the German word “schadenfreude” started popping up a lot in the early 1990’s, thanks to The Simpsons, and then again in the early 2000’s, thanks in part to a song performed by puppets.

 

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