GERMAN · C2WORD NOTES
MEANING & PRONUNCIATION

die Sprachskepsis

skepticism about language's expressive capacity

Ihre Sprachskepsis konnte ich nachvollziehen, nachdem wir lange nach einem Wort gesucht hatten, das weder verharmloste noch unnötig dramatisierte.

I could understand her skepticism about language after we had spent a long time searching for a word that neither played things down nor dramatized them unnecessarily.

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