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08-05-2012, 04:29 AM
Summer Olympic sports carry their own particular jargon and vocabularies, and they seem to bring out the quadrennial linguist in all of us. And a new edition of the official dictionary in China is gettin' jiggy with some jargon of its own, from "house slaves" and "banana person" to "diplomagate" and "N.B.A."
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