TheDongerNeedsFood t1_iy7zv15 wrote on November 29, 2022 at 12:56 PM Reply to Words for negative concepts (e.g. "bad") are replaced faster and mutate more than those for positive concepts (e.g. "good") across Indo-European languages. As a consequence, different languages have highly dissimilar words for negative concepts but not for positive concepts. by smurfyjenkins So different countries have similar terms for “cool” or “ok”, but different terms for “fucked up” Permalink 7
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TheDongerNeedsFood t1_iy7zv15 wrote
Reply to Words for negative concepts (e.g. "bad") are replaced faster and mutate more than those for positive concepts (e.g. "good") across Indo-European languages. As a consequence, different languages have highly dissimilar words for negative concepts but not for positive concepts. by smurfyjenkins
So different countries have similar terms for “cool” or “ok”, but different terms for “fucked up”