Tsundoku: We Obviously All Have Them!

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Tsundoku: We Obviously All Have Them!

1Bookwomble
Oct 27, 2014, 8:00 pm

An excellent new word to add to the vocabulary, and one I think all of us ROOTers can identify with :-)

“Tsundoku,” the Japanese word for the new books that pile up on our shelves.

Do you think it's a word that should be adopted into English? I'd vote yes! See more by following the link, below.

http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/tsundoku-should-enter-the-english-language.ht...

2Bookwomble
Edited: Oct 27, 2014, 8:39 pm

Also, I can think of a couple of candidates for a Backpfeifengesicht.

EDIT: I see that I'm late to the tsundoku party! I should have done a search before posting! I'll leave this up, though, both as a testament to my own lack of foresight and as I couldn't see another link to the Open Culture site, which is quite interesting.