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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5268 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 1 of 18 09 January 2013 at 3:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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This came in on my twitter feed today: 21 Emotions For Which There Are No English Words and I thought it might be interesting to share with the community.
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It's definitely worth a click. I'd post the image but I can't, it is an interactive one. Fascinating. Edited by iguanamon on 09 January 2013 at 5:50pm 8 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Tsopivo Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4477 days ago 258 posts - 411 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Esperanto | Message 2 of 18 09 January 2013 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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I also enjoyed the link in the article to the list of 25 words that exist in other languages and that you wish existed in English. Especially :
1 Age-otori (Japanese): To look worse after a haircut 2 Arigata-meiwaku (Japanese): An act someone does for you that you didn’t want to have them do and tried to avoid having them do, but they went ahead anyway, determined to do you a favor, and then things went wrong and caused you a lot of trouble, yet in the end social conventions required you to express gratitude And this one needs to be mentioned on this forum : 25 Yoko meshi (Japanese): literally ‘a meal eaten sideways,’ referring to the peculiar stress induced by speaking a foreign language 10 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ling Diglot Groupie Taiwan Joined 4592 days ago 61 posts - 94 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Indonesian, Thai | Message 3 of 18 09 January 2013 at 7:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm surprised to see 加油 there. It's not an emotion; it's just a cheer, like "You can do
it!" or "Keep it up!" (or at the horse races: "Go baby go!") And I always thought 心疼 was just "heartache". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4874 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 4 of 18 15 January 2013 at 8:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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I immediately thought of Saudade (Portuguese) and 정 (Korean) and was glad to find both in the graphic. Seems to be very well done and was interesting to read. Thanks for sharing!
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| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5910 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 5 of 18 15 January 2013 at 10:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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Gezellig is on there! ^_^ we used to make so much fun about that in Amsterdam when I was hanging with expats.
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| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6966 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 6 of 18 16 January 2013 at 12:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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There is a nice book called "The meaning of Tingo" with all the words that don't have a specific translation in English (not only emotions but also emotions)
http://themeaningoftingo.blogspot.be/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Jacot_de_Boinod 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kaptengröt Tetraglot Groupie Sweden Joined 4344 days ago 92 posts - 163 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic Studies: Japanese | Message 7 of 18 18 January 2013 at 7:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I think this is nicer than these ones that are like "all these things we can't say in English!!" because on those, they never take into account that we can say them perfectly fine in English (just in multiple words or with some description), or that the language they are showing us actually is writing them in multiple words/description and they just don't ex. have spaces between them (like with compound words and agglutinating languages). Like claiming the compound "thinice" in a language is special because in that language they just have no space in-between, whereas we do in English...
Schadenfreude - Wait, doesn't this sort of count as being in English? Since we do use the German word for it (not any different from all the other words we've borrowed from other languages). The other ones I can see why they are on there, since we don't use them in English. This one at least, also has a list of "English words that mean the same or almost the same thing" in Wikipedia. Hygge has always been weird to me. Probably they use it differently in Danish, but I have not yet actually been able to figure out when exactly you couldn't just replace it with "cozy" ("homey" I personally think is included in the meaning of cozy). "The feeling of obsession with someone or something", isn't that... just... obsession? I'm a little confused. You say "I am obsessed (with/by...)". Then again these things are not usually so good at very clearly describing the words. "Identifying with other's suffering so much that the heart hurts". I think that is covered in "empathy", just that empathy is a little less specific and can be used for any emotion technically... "A rather relaxed attitude and emotion towards everything..." isn't that one "laid-back"? "The feeling of slight laziness..." sounds like how I always use lethargy, but otherwise I think the problem there is more the same as with empathy - it's covered in the meaning of "lazy" already, it's just less specific. Actually I use "lazy" to mean exactly this sort of "slight laziness", whereas I would use "really/extremely lazy" to mean something worse than that. I think the internet ones are funny, I didn't realize we don't have words for those because to me it just seems like common sense to describe the feeling instead of reach for a single word. Although I don't understand the Twitter one, since I don't use Twitter. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4674 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 8 of 18 18 January 2013 at 8:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Saudade is said AÑORANZA or MORRIÑA in Spanish, and ČEŽNJA in Croatian, and Serbian, SEVDAH in Bosnian.
Homesickness qualifies for a word in English, and, thus, you can argue, many languages lack a word for Homesickness and have to use 3 words instead of a compound. There's one word we have in Croatian, but I haven't been able to find it in other languages: ZLOPAMTILO: a person who only remembers bad things, or bad things someone else did or said. Edited by Medulin on 18 January 2013 at 9:00pm 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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