[lit-ideas] Re: Is this word really necessary?
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:05:10 +0000 (GMT)
thank you, I'll look out for the book
--- On Tue, 31/8/10, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Is this word really necessary?
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, 31 August, 2010, 21:55
>
> On Aug 31, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Judith Evans wrote:
>
> >
> > Dreich is a useful word, yes, it even sounds right. It
> reminds me, in that way, of hiraeth,
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiraeth
> >
> > here's Lampeter's version
> >
> > hiraeth 1. homesickness n.m.f.
> grief or sadness after the lost or departed n. (hiraethau)
> longing n.m. (hiraethau) yearning n.m. (hiraethau) nostalgia
> n.m. (hiraethau) wistfulness n.m. (hiraethau) earnest desire
> n.m. (hiraethau)
> >
>
> Useful word. Particularly for the likes of us.
>
> Of course you can cure this, in Russians at least, by
> burying people alive:
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=7BbTJ6qVPMcC&pg=PA5&lpg=PA5&dq=nostalgia+napoleon's+army&source=bl&ots=XTCI8ObnVG&sig=Z98X04fHU7dcusD-GI20CD5Sf6s&hl=en&ei=iWt9TPu9K432tgOw4YWDBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
> David Ritchie,
> Portland, Oregon
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