Sport

Indonesia is hosting the Asian Games this month, and sport is in the news.

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August 28, 2018

Indonesia is hosting the Asian Games this month, and sport is in the news. Actually sport has been foremost in the news since early July, with soccer World Cup fever. A good time to look at words about sport.

In Indonesian, the word for ‘sport’ is olahraga, literally ‘training of the body’ (just as olahjiwa is training of one’s spiritual self). As I have mentioned before, in English the word ‘sport’ has

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