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bellejolie
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| I'm not sure the concept of "nerdology" exists in KoreaJapanChina - do they have geeks? If I'm allowed to be offensive for a second, most of my Asian students have been geeks of some sort (at least certainly within a western context) - I'm not sure if the idea even exists over there. |
In my experience teaching in Tokyo, there were definitely more nerdy nerds than the average nerd. And there were less nerdy ones as well. Your college student consumed with fashion, or the uptown girl working publishing is completely aware of the schism between her and lets say, the 35 year old living at home with Carrie Donovan size glasses and a booger collection.
But the idea of being a nerd just for being smart or liking science fiction is completely unknown. |
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migo
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| Those were some pretty damn good translations for words that are untranslatable. From the list I'd say the winner should be the Arabic word for a kind of sadness. |
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basiltherat
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being more or less a fluent speaker of malay/indonesian, it has always been interesting to note that the language does not have a specific word meaning 'guilty' in English. The nearest I seem able to get to it is 'bersalah' which would translate into English as 'to have/feel wrong' about having done something which is quite distant from what most of us regard as 'guilt'. Interestingly they have a word for 'shame' (although it can loosley be used for shy and embarrassed). My conclusion is that in their lives as long as one is not discovered to have committed a sin, that's just fine and of no consequence but to be caught or found out is NOT good.
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