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Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago

Name something the Germans invented without googling

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Name something the Germans invented without googling

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Sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago
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  • MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    Schadenfreude. I mean they probably didn’t invent the feeling but I can give them credit for it along with the word.

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      " I also like hiraeth. It’s a Welsh concept of longing for home."

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        deleted by creator

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          Or homesickness. Fernweh, on the other hand, only exists (somewhat) in English in idioms, afaik: itchy feet

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            wanderlust…damn it.

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              That is not quite the same thing.

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              Why aren’t they called “homelust” or “wandersickness?”

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                “Weh” means pain which is reflecting the feeling better.

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                  It is also an older way to express a longing of the heart for something, in this case home / unknown places respectively.

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                The English “wanderlust” comes from the German Wanderlust more recently (1902). In German, Lust is related to the English “lust,” but it’s got less of a sensual connotation. “Homesickness” also comes from German (1798), but it was translated into English.

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              Yeah, that’s a good call!

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          Any word in Welsh is a weird way to spell a word.

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      TIL that’s a feeling and not just the TF2 laughing emote

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        Its more than a feeling.

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