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What does the word xenopili mean?

Question #32504. Asked by yank.

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I have found a source but I do not know of any English that prefer the word.
link http://www.langust.ru/review/xeno-br1.shtml

Xenophobia (Actually the English prefer 'xenolipi' (pity for foreigners) but both words, being foreign in origin, are of limited pertinence in any case), although a Greek word, has its spiritual home in the English dictionary where it is drily defined as an 'abstract' noun.

This is misleading. It is, in fact, a very 'common' noun - an everyday sort of noun really, with nothing abstract about it at all. For xenophobia is the English national sport - England's most enduring cultural expression. And there is a very good reason for that.

As far as the English are concerned, all of life's greatest problems can be summed up in one word - foreigners.


Apr 28 2003, 7:43 AM
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