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Word: massugu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...baseball interlingua. It was not too difficult, for many of Japan's basic terms are taken straight from Abner Doubleday's lexicon: an out is outo, a hit is hitto, a homer is homma and a batter is a batta. Blasin game also mastered such words as massugu (straight), tsuyoku (strongly), yukkuri (slowly) and a lot of what might be called body Japanese. "A tiny gesture from Breiza," explains Hawk Out fielder Shuzo Aono, "and we more or less know what he is trying to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Breiza-san Is a Hitto | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

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