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An old English teacher of mine tried to convince us that you couldn't be bored if you didn't know the word "bored". You certainly can. There are no words for
by metajack 17y ago
An old English teacher of mine tried to convince us that you couldn't be bored if you didn't know the word "bored". You certainly can.
There are no words for the feelings many people have. We have a whole system of literature for this, which we call poetry.
- gnaritas 17y agoBoredom isn't a thought, it's a feeling. As for having thoughts you don't have words for, people do it all the time, and you just make up a new word for it, it's how language evolved.