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May. 19th, 2010 02:31 pmWord of the Day: usufruct, n/v: the right of enjoying the use and advantages of another's property short of the destruction or waste of its substance. hold in usufruct; usufructuary.
Try using that in a sentence three different times (the rule for how often you have to use a word to 'own' it.) Here, I'll start: Post-colonial land ownership disagreements frequently occur when European colonisers understand themselves to have bought land in the European custom, while the indigenous land-owners understand the colonisers to have bought only usufructuary rights. (This is not the sentence in which I ran across the word, but it's pretty close. Usufructuary! It's fabulous! Somehow says exactly what it means while similarly tasting like orange juice.)
Try using that in a sentence three different times (the rule for how often you have to use a word to 'own' it.) Here, I'll start: Post-colonial land ownership disagreements frequently occur when European colonisers understand themselves to have bought land in the European custom, while the indigenous land-owners understand the colonisers to have bought only usufructuary rights. (This is not the sentence in which I ran across the word, but it's pretty close. Usufructuary! It's fabulous! Somehow says exactly what it means while similarly tasting like orange juice.)
