• Shayeta@feddit.orgEnglish
    181·
    2 days ago

    Just waiting for some german to pop up and go: “Of course! there is an word for exactly that! It is Aansprakelijkheidswaardevaststellingsveranderingen!”

    • Tiresia@slrpnk.netEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      That really isn’t as impressive as it sounds. English compounds are often (but far from always) separated by spaces or hyphens while German compounds tend to have no separation. Thus German compounds technically qualify as words while English ones don’t, even though they are functionally the same.

      The word you pasted is Dutch rather than German, but it literally translates to “culpabilityassessmentadjustments”, or “culpability-assessment-adjustments”, or “culpability assessment adjustments” if you insist. Like with English you can just substitute one part of the compound with another to change its meaning. Aansprakelijkheidswaardevaststellingsbegroting means “culpability assessment budget”.

      English can have unseparated compounds too, like “un|separated” or “base|ball”, but it feels weird to invent new unseparated compounds, while in German and Dutch it feels weird to leave those spaces. But a German compound word is as ordinary as an English compound.

  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    I get like this often. I’m fortunate enough to have friends with whom I have enough of a rapport that we have shorthands for stuff like this (usually established after a couple times of attempting to articulate this sentiment (or more commonly, months after it would have been ideal to articulate this sentiment, after many guilt ridden apologies for not replying.))

    For example, with one of my friends, we use a black heart emoji to relay the sentiment in the OP (black to distinguish it from the generic heart react). I like having this shorthand because it means that when I receive a message from a friend and I’m too low brain to have any hope of replying, I’m more likely to be able to attend least read the message — being able to trivially communicate both my affection and my burnout makes reading the message feel less overwhelming, and disrupts the cycle of shame. And sometimes reading that message from a friend is exactly what I needed if I’m feeling low

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    2·
    1 day ago

    Ive got a friend like that. We were like the closest brothers for a long time, and then I moved far away. We kept in touch for years, but then it fell off when all the MAGA stuff started, and I am almost certain he fell down that well. If I speak to him now, I’ll probably have to tell him that we can’t be friends anymore, and that’s going to hurt, so I’ve avoided contacting him.

    I’m really not sure how to handle it.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Yes. I am still searching for a way to communicate this in a socially acceptable way but one that also doesn’t cost me all my daily allotment of energy.