... than a guidebook. I looked at languages from all corners of the world, from the Fuegian of southernmost Chile to the Inuit of northernmost Alaska, and from the Maori of the remote Cook Islands ... French for ‘the rain that falls from a cloudless sky’; or wamadat, Persian for ‘the intense heat of a sultry night’. I found words for all stages of life, from paggiq, Inuit for ‘the flesh ... of his spittle and excrement ÷e daily grind Attitudes to work vary not just from workplace to workplace, but from one side of the office to the other: fucha (Polish) to use company time and...