All the Romance languages and, of course, Greek, use the term in a form that is close enough, and speakers of Slavic languages tend to be intelligent and recognize the word (at least, the ones I know do). Speakers of East Asian languages would look everything up first, and so I don't think they would have a problem with the word, either.
The person sounds like an incredibly stupid person regardless of native language.
The person sounds like an incredibly stupid person regardless of native language.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Synonym wanted
- 12/06/2012 08:46:37 AM
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Outweigh, counterbalance, overwhelm, invalidate, nullify, make insignificant
- 12/06/2012 03:25:16 PM
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Not stupid, just no native speaker.
- 12/06/2012 07:29:43 PM
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And speaks what...Hungarian?
- 13/06/2012 07:07:33 AM
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My impression is she understood it, but questions the legitimacy of its general definition.
- 12/06/2012 08:11:58 PM
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Perhaps "dwarf" or "surpass," but "eclipse" is a perfectly cromulent word. 
- 12/06/2012 07:51:26 PM
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- 12/06/2012 07:51:26 PM
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Agreed, they embiggen the vocabulary *NM*
- 13/06/2012 01:16:41 PM
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I am curious now how this ended.
- 29/06/2012 04:02:08 AM
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"Mask"? Not sure I know what you mean by "eclipse", but this is how I interpret it. *NM*
- 13/06/2012 12:44:18 PM
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Eclipse might be a bad choice, I'd really want the context around it, but...
- 13/06/2012 01:33:37 PM
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