Friday, April 4, 2008

Sprezzatura

Only when you learn about other languages do you realize how woefully inadequate the English language is.

This Italian term refers to "making the difficult look easy", surely a term which English has nothing close to matching. The Italian word "sprezzatura" was used in 1939 by the historian Charles Alexander to describe the play of the Baseball great Joe DiMaggio. What an apt description!.

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