December 2011
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Feelings We Need Words For
English is so bad at describing what it means to grieve. We use words like bereft or bitter or sad, or we say we have a broken heart. But none of these really get at the nuances. The words don’t seem to capture each exquisitely painful feeling. For example, there should be a word, maybe borrowed from German, a language so good at expressing complicated mental states in a single lengthy word with...