Lowlands-L: Beyond the Pale: A border-crossing guide for language learners
Lowlands-L: Beyond the Pale: A border-crossing guide for language learners

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A word I love: girigiri

"girigiri in Hiragana and Katakana scriptsJapanese girigiri means something like “just barely,” “at the last moment,” “cutting it close,” or “down to the wire.”

 

 

 

Mike W. Morgan (Member of Lowlands-L)
Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India, March 30, 2008

 

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