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It was a nice moment of serindipity from two of my favorite satirists.
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But Mitarai also reminded Nikai that many leading Japanese companies are struggling with rising resource prices and tougher international competition. serindipity at 03: 40 PM JST - 10th September
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Enough! serindipity at 11: 09 AM JST - 14th September
TomBCofC commented on the word serindipity
Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely. The word has been voted as one of the ten English words that were hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company.1 However, due to its sociological use, the word has been imported into many other languages (Portuguese serendipicidade or serendipidade; French sérendipicité or sérendipité but also heureux hasard, "fortunate chance"; Italian serendipità; Dutch serendipiteit; German Serendipität; Swedish, Danish and Norwegian serendipitet; Romanian serendipitate).
June 9, 2009