using English to describe my feel seems to change my emotion a little bit, a little surprise : )
@hikaritojiyu There are languages that surprisingly *increase* or *decrease* feelings in their articulation and expression.
I think it's Vietnamese and Mandarin for example have A LOT more tone, feeling and information per sentence of what someone says in English.
English which is like military-speak describing things, can be much less caring like an authority who is talk to it's soldiers and ordering things in less human-description ways.
English has ability to do more but when you see other languages and their respect for things (which are not just looking at things as objects but spirits or reverence in their external object) then it's like they are in default-love with the world and wonder so positively about people things as something so much more than 'I go to work; people but again spirit or carriers of something non-man-made)-
so much difference that comparatively the English or German efficiency (style toward ebing 'efficient') can seem actually inhuman / cuts out this respect !
I heard a Turkish guy actually say he feels disrespected when switching to English! lol
Hard to see when born into such construct BUT having a variety of friends that can explain how they talk to their own or to parents or to authority can really be eye-opening like O_O and makes one wishing to have those features / way of life in their language! (or in English have less of those 'features' for authority or just objects in it's realm)
This is also why programming languages, STEM and sciences sometimes cannot see or even consider people and their feelings in their equation. They are just objectively seen as objects or subjects in English!
Oh yeah the queen died.
Maybe now this means her objects (possessions) and "subjects" are now free !
@freeschool wow, the idea you brought is very fresh to me. Yes, in deed, I used to talk to some foreigners in English at work, and I felt a little bit embarrassed because the whole conversation seemed to be so rude , and I thought that was because I was just a beginner in English and I was terrible at English.
As a native Mandarin speaker, it's true that what we talk is more than the object itself. However the reason is not only that we respect the nature, but I think that's because of the politics.
From ancient time, people were killed because the autocratic empire was not happy to hear of dissident, and the empire has the power to turture people, so people had to use metaphor to express what they real mean just in a safer way. As time passes, people talk in this indrect way.
In fact, English helps me to express our suffering directly , and to speak out is really a relief for me. Hope we all feel free, no matter what language we use : )
