Friday, August 12, 2011
Looking for 'love'...?
I have two responses to this: the first is related to Bell Prisco's post, and the other is related to practical linguistics. 1) The translations Bell lists as Swedish (including the translation of "because it's forgotten" pentru ca este forgotton) are not Swedish. They are Romanian, except for the word "forgotton," and I don't know which language that is from. It is neither Swedish nor Romanian. 2) Languages (ancient or modern) just don't work like you are wanting them to. For example, EROS sometimes means friendship, at other times it means lustful attraction without concern for the object's welfare. Individual words take their meaning from context, so what you probably require is a descriptive sentence or paragraph rather than a word... like you give in your question.
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