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The unique joy of learning new words
With all that’s happening in the news, life can feel like an exercise in determining the particular kind of bad we are experiencing. Are we anxious or depressed? Lonely or stressed?
Tim Lomas, a senior lecturer in positive psychology at the University of East London, is engaged in the opposite effort: analyzing all the types of well-being that he can find. Specifically, Lomas is seeking to uncover psychological insights by collecting untranslatable words that describe
People are fascinated with untranslatable words in part because they are
Linguists (语言学家) have long argued about how much the language we speak-partly determined by factors like geography and climate—
Studying the words in Lomas’ collection, at the least, is a means of reflecting on ways that we can feel good. When asked for one of his
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