20 more awesomely untranslatable words from around the world If only you could use these words in Scrabble. Photo: Jeremy Mates When linguists refer to “untranslatable” words, the idea is not that a word cannot somehow be explained in another language, but that part of the essence of the word is lost as it crosses from one language to another. In the novel Shame, Salman Rushdie’s narrator suggests: “To unlock a society, look at its untranslatable words.” Here are 20 words that don’t translate directly into English; what may these words tell us about the societies in which they come from? 1. Arabic – [in-shal-la] While it can be translated literally as “if Allah wills,” the meaning of this phrase differs depending on the speaker’s tone of voice. It can be a genuine sentiment, such as when talking to an old friend and parting with “We’ll meet again, inshallah,” or it can be used as a way to tacitly imply you actually aren’t planning to do something. Photo: Shahram Sharif 2. 3. 4. 5. Photo: Ethan Prater 6. 7. 8. 9. A sample from The Joys of Yiddish: 10.
symboldictionary.net sleepyti.me bedtime calculator The Top 10 Relationship Words That Aren't Translatable Into English | Marriage 3.0 Here are my top ten words, compiled from online collections, to describe love, desire and relationships that have no real English translation, but that capture subtle realities that even we English speakers have felt once or twice. As I came across these words I’d have the occasional epiphany: “Oh yeah! That’s what I was feeling...” Mamihlapinatapei (Yagan, an indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego): The wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but are both reluctant to start. Oh yes, this is an exquisite word, compressing a thrilling and scary relationship moment. Yuanfen (Chinese): A relationship by fate or destiny. From what I glean, in common usage yuanfen means the "binding force" that links two people together in any relationship. But interestingly, “fate” isn’t the same thing as “destiny.” Cafuné (Brazilian Portuguese): The act of tenderly running your fingers through someone's hair. Ya’aburnee (Arabic): “You bury me.”
Wabi-Sabi: Translating the Beauty in Imperfection Wabi-sabi. It’s a concept, an aesthetic, and a worldview. It’s also a phrase that doesn’t translate directly from Japanese into English, and the ideas behind it may not immediately translate in the minds of those who haven’t encountered it before. Put simply, it’s an intuitive way of living that emphasizes finding beauty in imperfection, and accepting the natural cycle of growth and decay. The best way to learn about wabi-sabi is just to accept that it’s there – and to begin noticing examples of it in one’s daily life. The words wabi and sabi were not always linked, and they can still be used separately in the Japanese language. Sabi by itself refers to the natural progression of time, and carries with it an understanding that all things will grow old and become less conventionally beautiful. The tea ceremony itself is an example of how wabi-sabi manifests itself in Japanese culture. “What Wabi Sabi does is to place these haikus within the context of a larger tale.
Adorn your wall with rasterbations. Rasterbating is by far the cheapest, easiest and coolest way to fill an entire wall with art. A rasterbator is a program that takes any image and expands it to any size desired whilst keeping its original quality. The way this works is that the program changes the image into a half-toned one. THAT basically means the program turns the chosen image into a lot of small dots that will not look like much up close, but from a sufficient distance they resume their original shapes. Besides using the name to make immature and hilarious puns, the best part of rasterbating is the fact that it is so customizable. One can upload any picture they would like, choose the size (up to twenty meters) by selecting the amount of pages to print it on, and also decide whether the image is achromatic, monochromatic or has full color. There are many downloadable or online programs that will rasterbate your images, but this one here seems to be the best.
Listen and Write - Dictation An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments Why "High-Functioning" Psychopaths Rule The World In general, most people are very complex and can exhibit different personality traits at different times. But one can also say that there tends to be two distinct groupings in societies' power structures: Those who can be characterized as "normal," and those who view the world through a prism heavily influenced by psychopathy and sociopathy. My take (by trying to understand the world around me) is that the great majority of people operate under the "normal" approach, when it comes to power-plays and relationships. A very small minority could be characterized as high-functioning sociopaths and/or psychopaths. And it's not that the majority is "normal" as in not being afflicted by all kinds of personality, psychological, and psychiatric disorders... By "normal," what I mean is that people tend to say and do things in accordance to their real thoughts, emotions, views, ideas, beliefs. There is an angle to everything you say and do; to every relationship you choose to "nurture."
The Meanings Behind Words for Emotions Aren't Universal, Study Finds | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine In May 1993, Trinidadian-German Eurodance artist Haddaway posed a crucial query to the world: “What is love?” Haddaway asked his question in English, but he received a range of responses—in part, perhaps, because there were so many other languages listeners could use to answer. By analyzing words from nearly 2,500 languages, researchers have found that terms describing emotions—like anger and happiness—can have very different meanings depending on the cultures and geographies where they originate. “We walk around assuming that everyone else’s experience is the same as ours because we name it with the same word, and this suggests that that might not be the case,” study author Kristen Lindquist, a psychologist and neuroscientist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tells Amina Khan of the Los Angeles Times. By mapping out colexification in emotional terms, the team was able to identify feelings speakers of a given language considered similar.
Creativity Quotes From Mycoted The quotations here fall into two main categories. The first category is from people who have had a very restricted vision, with hindsight their comments can be used as powerful examples of what can happen if you don't allow creative thoughts to flourish. The second category is from people who have had a much more creative, open view of life. "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." "Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity" -- Michael Porter, Harvard Business School "There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes." -- Buckminster Fuller "If at first, the idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it." -- Albert Einstein "Whenever you see a successful business someone once made a courageous decision" - - Peter F Drucker.
Playtype | Typographer's Glossary Serif: Serif's are semi-structural details on the ends of some of the strokes that make up letters and symbols. A typeface that has serifs is called a serif typeface (or seriffed typeface). Some of the main classifications of Serif type are: Blackletter, Venetian, Garalde, Modern, Slab Serif, Transitional, and Informal. We Have a New Shortest Science Paper. It Also Has No Words, and Is Utterly Brilliant. To most laypeople, a scientific paper is a wordy jumble of jargon, the abstruse monotony occasionally punctured with a confusing chart, and maybe a table or two brimming with numbers. Many scientists recognize that this perception is at least partly deserved, and do their best to communicate their work clearly, correctly and as briefly as possible. To salute their efforts, last year, we drew attention to the shortest scientific paper ever published. Now, we can report that there is actually a tie for the distinction of "shortest scientific paper." "On nonrecoverable deletion in syntax," published in 1972 to the journal Linguistic Inquiry, also had no words, and -- in its own fashion -- was equally brilliant. Then, in 1972, Linguistic Inquiry published the Fall issue of its 3rd volume, and on page 528 was a paper called "On nonrecoverable deletion in syntax" by Robert Fiengo and Howard Lasnik on exactly this topic. (Image: John T.
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