Comments on: The fear of diminishing opportunities as one ages http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: M.A.Leslie http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/comment-page-1/#comment-19707 Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:31:01 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/#comment-19707 As much as I have always wanted to see my work in print, more than ever I have always wanted to see it translated and printed in a different language. I know that you really don't profit from foreign rights but it would just be cool. I would even go as far to say it would be extra neato.

]]> By: DGLM http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/comment-page-1/#comment-19702 Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:22:18 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/#comment-19702 Kristin, I meant to say but the day kept getting a way from me: I know that the Germans have a leg up on excellent words because of their structure, but isn't there also a fine sense of metaphor at play here? Schadenfreude and wunderkind appear to my non-linguistically-trained eye to be pretty straightforward compounds, but then torschlusspanik seems pretty special. Literally it's something like gate-shutting panic, which is a gorgeous metaphor for lost opportunity. I wouldn't give them a whole lot of credit for shoving together fearofdiminishingopportunity or for using torschlusspanik to describe literal fear of closing gates. You seem to know your stuff, though, and you've made me wonder: is torschlusspanik a lovely exception or are such metaphorical compounds common in German? Any idea?

-Lauren

]]> By: M. M. Justus http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/comment-page-1/#comment-19701 Sat, 13 Nov 2010 01:08:31 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/#comment-19701 Thank you for linking to the 500 Miles video. I hadn't seen it, and I haven't seen Benny and Joon in ages, and I grinned all the way through.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/comment-page-1/#comment-19700 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:01:13 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/#comment-19700 Natalie, here in Portugal wine is good and cheap… I could easily send you a pack of 6!

EEV.

]]> By: Paul Äertker http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/comment-page-1/#comment-19699 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:49:30 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/#comment-19699 I think the term Natalie needs is: HELP!
Send us your address and we'll send you a bottle. Or two!

]]> By: DGLM http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/comment-page-1/#comment-19698 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:11:28 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/#comment-19698 Natalie, that definitely sounds like it needs its own term. And like dépaysement from that list might just come in handy for you!

-Lauren

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/comment-page-1/#comment-19696 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:39:49 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/#comment-19696 Here in the Middle East we need a word to describe the devastation of realising you've just finished the last bottle of wine, and your husband is on a business trip, and wives aren't eligible for alcohol permits, and you can't buy another bottle for 10 days.
Then a word for the embarrassment of having to scrounge an interim bottle from a friend. Again.
Alcoholism is an essential part of expat life.

Natalie

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/comment-page-1/#comment-19695 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:07:13 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/#comment-19695 I love the last word – saudade – that's because I'm a brasilian, living for more than 10 years in Portugal. So, I know the meaning of the word, and I also can feel it. Sometimes I believe we portuguese are born with "saudade" inside.
But there are some other very funny words, like the one "Tingo". I know a lot of people with this "tingo" thing… lol.
About the one you ask – well, I know none. But it certainly exists. Language is a wonderful thing. Nice post! Thanks!

EEV.

]]> By: Kristin Laughtin http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/comment-page-1/#comment-19694 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:45:19 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/#comment-19694 The Germans have a lot of great words along those lines since their language makes use of closed compounds (compound words with no spaces). Schadenfreude seems to be the most famous example, though.

Off that list, toska seems to fill that void of needing a word for me. At least, I think it does, since I don't know Russian and the word isn't perfectly translatable into English. 😉 I think most of the concepts I need terms for have to do with various kinds of longing, especially for abstract concepts.

]]> By: Don http://www.dystel.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/comment-page-1/#comment-19693 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:15:55 +0000 http://032453b.netsolhost.com/blog/2010/11/the-fear-of-diminishing-opportunities-as-one-ages/#comment-19693 Interesting coincidence: I just read the Litost section of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting last night.

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