Designer Pei-Ying Lin has created a chart of 19 emotions that are untranslatable to english.
Lin, who is originally from Taiwan and speaks Chinese, created this chart after she realized that she was often unable to translate her feelings and thoughts to English because there were no equivalent words of for some emotions.
She created this chart using Parrot’s Emotion Classification, which looks at over 100 emotions in English.
Since language is not constructed solely on an emotion alone, there are feelings that cannot be expressed in every language.
Take for example, the Dutch word “Gezelligheid,” which means “comfort and coziness of being at home, with friends, with loved ones or general togetherness”.
We’ve previously featured Lin here, for another chart she created on new emotions invented by the Internet.
View the chart below:
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[via Fast Company Design]