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This might be of interest to some members:Tongue and Tech: The Many Emotions for Which English Has No Words
‘You know that
sorry state of affairs that is actually looking worse after a haircut? Or the
urge to squeeze something that is unbearably cute? Or the euphoria you feel
when you're first falling in love?
These are common things -- so common that they're among the
wonderfully delightful and excruciatingly banal experiences that bind us
together as humans. And yet they are not so common, apparently, that the
English language has found words to express them. The second-most-spoken
language in the world, as a communications system, sometimes drops the ball
when it comes to de-idiomizing experience -- a fact that we are reminded of
anew in the image above….’
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