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49. The Hidden Power of Language

Shit You Don't Learn in School

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What I Love About Untranslatable Words

I love the concept that the word beautiful means something different to basically everyone. If you were to say, there's a beautiful mountain, the actual picture that people have in their heads when they hear that is going to be different. And so i find it just like this amazing looking glass into different cultures and what's happening in those cultures. Using that term again, where it almost gives us access to the fringes of human experience. Have this ike incredible level of complexity in nuance, and the words that we usually use don't quite capture that. A lot of people struggle in conflict, because they don't know how to actually describe what they're experiencing.

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