Content
@
0 reply
0 recast
0 reaction
July
@july
Learning new words, learning new languages opens up different understandings of the world and yourself Reminded of describing “rain” in Irish Gaelic. Rain can be described as "báisteach" or "fearthainn", drizzle or misty rain is "ceobhrán" and "brádán" or "Tá sé ag draonán báistí" The expression "tá sé ag dríodarnach báistí", is a type of light rain. "Ceathanna", "múrtha" or "scrabhanna báistí" is showers of rain while "aimsir cheathach" or "aimsir spairniúil" describes showery weather. The word "craobhmhúr" is useful in describing scattered rain or a light shower. "Breacbháisteach" is occasional rain. And rain with blowing sideways can be described by "seadbháisteach" or “seadbhraonta"
11 replies
5 recasts
57 reactions
gilles
@gilles
“We cannot evolve faster than we evolve our language because you cannot go to places that you cannot describe.” — Terence McKenna
1 reply
1 recast
5 reactions
Adam
@adam-
As poetic as this quote is, there are places you can go where words fail to do what you're experiencing justice. The experience is outside of language, but it's felt deeply.
1 reply
0 recast
3 reactions
gilles
@gilles
it certainly is but the remains individual the experience can only become shared meaning through language - and still most of the feeling is lost i’ve always read “we” here as “species” - collective humanity & culture; language is how we create meaning together and advance to new places
0 reply
0 recast
1 reaction
