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75: Love and fury at the linguistics of emotions

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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Languages Group Together Different Emotions Into One Word

A project from Joshua Conrad Jackson and a whole team looked at how different languages group together different emotions into a single word. In English, the word love can mean so many different types of love which causes all kinds of confusion in romance novels or daily life. So again, two things that we have as separate words in English are put together in the same word in another language. The inverse can also be the case. Like there are things that English puts together as one word that another language might split.

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