Early on my teaching career, I observed that the bulk of my young Hispanic middle-school students, when asked, "What do you think of the test?", responded in a peculiar way.
They tilted their heads to the side, squinted their eyes, pouted their lips, showed me a rocking hand, and said, "mas o menos." More or less.
Well, all these English language-challenged kids just wanted me to understand was that the test wasn't easy, and at the same time, it wasn't hard.
Light bulb! Got me an idea to coin a word!
If it's not easy, facil, but at the same time, it's not hard, deficil, then it's...
DEFACIL! :D
After almost two decades, I still use the word, and each time I did, I saw grins.
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