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I tell you, one of the few real joys of the past four years is looking at the Merriam-Webster's Trending Words list. I've never been sure if they're actually trending words or if MW likes to troll the Right.
As noted at the website, when we're speaking English, it's an English-language word. I say this because every so often I come across somebody who insists that schadenfreude is an untranslateable German word with no English equivalent, and the joke's on them because the English word for schadenfreude is schadenfreude. Borrowings count. (Also, all human languages can express the same concepts, and no concept is really untranslateable, though some might require a bit of extra chatter to get across languages.)
I tell you, one of the few real joys of the past four years is looking at the Merriam-Webster's Trending Words list. I've never been sure if they're actually trending words or if MW likes to troll the Right.
As noted at the website, when we're speaking English, it's an English-language word. I say this because every so often I come across somebody who insists that schadenfreude is an untranslateable German word with no English equivalent, and the joke's on them because the English word for schadenfreude is schadenfreude. Borrowings count. (Also, all human languages can express the same concepts, and no concept is really untranslateable, though some might require a bit of extra chatter to get across languages.)
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Date: 2020-10-05 11:02 pm (UTC)