Signs As Untranslatable Foreign Words

signs as untranslatable foreign words

Aries: Schadenfreude. German – the feeling of pleasure derived by seeing another’s misfortune.

Taurus: Cafuné. Brazilian Portuguese – The act of tenderly running one’s fingers through someone’s hair.

Gemini: Verschlimmbessern. German – to make something worse when trying to improve it.

Cancer: Mamihlapinatapei. Yagan/Tierra del Fuego – The wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start.

Leo: Kjæreste. Norwegian – A gender neutral term for girlfriend or boyfriend. It literally translates as “dearest”.

Virgo: Wabi-Sabi. Japanese – “a way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay.”

Libra: L’ésprit d’escalier. French – is the feeling of finding the perfect retort too late, though it literally translates to “staircase wit.

Scorpio: La douleur exquise. French – the exquisite pain that comes from loving someone who will never love you back.

Sagittarius: Fremdschämen. German – Embarrassment you feel on behalf of someone who is too dumb to know they’ve done something they should be embarrassed by.

Capricorn: Geborgenheit. German – the feeling that, when with a certain person or in a certain place, that nothing could ever harm you.

Aquarius: Koev halev. Hebrew – Empathizing with someone else so deeply that it causes your heart to ache.

Pisces: Goya. Urdu – the transporting suspension of disbelief that can occur in a good storytelling.

EVERY ARMY NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS LETTER. PLS RB & SHARE IT WITH NEW ARMYs

On the 2016.01.10 Min Yoongi posted a letter to ARMYs, not as BTS’ Suga but Min Yoongi.

Some IMPORTANT quotes from the letter:

“I want to tell a story not as a singer to a fan, as BTS to ARMY but as a person to another person.”

“My studio is my wide meadow and narrow prison.”

“I pretended to be cold-hearted and pretended to be strong”

“If joy is shared it will be doubled but if sadness is shared it won’t get smaller” 

“To me, music is my hope and happiness. I also want to become someone’s hope and happiness”

“It’s very easy for me to hold my own sadness, but it’s tough when the people who love me are sad”

“I don’t want to take this honor of being loved by so many people for granted”

“Sorry for not being a perfect person”

“I am a weak person who pretends to be strong”

“To me who always wanted to be alone, all of you took up a big portion of me. Age, gender, nationality, religion, what language you use, it doesn’t matter. Whether you are young or old, whether you have a hidden child. I don’t care, haven’t I said this already. All you who loves me and BTS are all ARMYs”

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