Saudade This Portuguese word crops up on lots of untranslatable - TopicsExpress



          

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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