Word: gist
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Writing rushed in to fill the void that had been occupied by drugs. Her first sprawling demi-autobiographical outpourings were bound and ungagged between the covers of Postcards in 1987. The gist of the haywire parable is that fame and fortune are no shield; things can go very wrong in rich families with smart, talented people too. The book is less about the outlaw romance of drug abuse than about the process of picking up the pieces. She explains, "The facts don't change, just the fiction that you make up about them...
...hundreds of borrowings from computer to frustrieren, a particular favorite among verbs. All in all, roughly a quarter of the most commonly used words in English and German are identical or similar enough to be understandable. Thus for the uninitiated, it is probably easier to pick up the gist of a conversation in German than one in most other languages. No small satisfaction...