so…but no words exist. You want to insult someone but can’t find a word vicious enough. You want to speak words of tender affection to your partner but no such words exist in the English language. Thankfully, there are other languages we can turn to in our time of need. Here are...
Sometimes there are no words in the English language for our feelings. But we can turn to another language for the exact word we need.
Some have said to me that it’s done from a place of affection, of celebration, and this could be true of things like dialect books and dictionaries, where local pronunciations are written out phonetically. But it’s tied up in and contributes to a bigger picture, one where regional and...
The pride and confidence you feel when you know that you are someone’s object of desire and affection. 6. ‘Koi no yokan’ (Koy-no-yo-kahn) Japanese A premonition of love, but different from “love at first sight”. It’s the feeling upon meeting someone and knowing that love could...
They had met when Nick was still studying for a Jesuit ministry, and their relationship had stayed on the level of Catholic raillery and implicit spiritual affection. But I think Nick was a bit put out by Jill’s interest in Jiamu.11.Jupiter is enormous. As we got closer, bleeding off ...
After the love has ended, the lingering sentimental feeling--an affection, almost--that you experience toward them is “razbliuto.” You once loved each other. And even though it ended, a part of you always will. Cavoli riscaldati ...