Saudade This Portuguese word crops up on lots of untranslatable lists. Writer Manuel de Melo has defined it as “a pleasure you suffer, an ailment you enjoy”. To me that’s a reasonable description of the concept of “nostalgia”. It sounds like the important place that saudade occupies in the literary and musical tradition of Portuguese-speaking countries is the hard thing to “translate”. In other words, this is just a case of cultural difference.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:04:18 +0000
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