Speakers of a different languages live in different worlds. Words stand for pattern of thinking, seeing, and feeling. When we go from one language to another, nothing stays put; different people carry different nerve pattern in their brains, and theres no point where they fully match. For example, I myself love the word Lebenskünstler, a word from German, meaning one who knows how to live. According to my findings in internet, Lebenskünstler is Someone who pieces together his living from various activities that, collectively, bring in just enough money to live. No office, no suit, no boss, no rules. German has a word for such people, and English doesn’t. one who recognizes opportunities in life and takes advantage or makes use of those opportunities to make the most out of one’s own life; one who lives life deliberately and to the fullest capacity (concept from Henry David Thoreau of “living deep and sucking out all the marrow of life”); one who gambles with the outcome of his/her own life by seizing opportunity; one who makes living an art.
Posted on: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 02:33:59 +0000
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