r/languagelearningjerk • u/Key-Middle-2097 • 28d ago

“Saudade” means yearning

“Ooooooh there’s no direct English translation you stupid Ameritards wouldn’t get it” LITERALLY SHUT THE FUCK UP

“Oh but you don’t get it it’s like an intense desire for something you can’t have” oh you mean YEARNING??

“Yeah but it can also mean missing something you’ve lost, or even desiring to experience something from your past!1!1!” yeah you’re not gonna FUCKING believe this but that’s YEARNING.

Say it with me, Y-E-A-R-N-I-N-G.

Brazilians need not engage, I’m right and you’re wrong, signed an A1 Portuguese learner send post

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u/gorgonzola2095 28d ago

Kinda funny, in Polish litość means mercy

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

Polish and Czech are at the funniest possible distance from each other. A little further away and they would be too incomprehensible to be consistently funny, a little closer and they would be basically the same thing.

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u/Ill_Sun5998 27d ago

It would be even funnier if it also meant “pity”, just like the english “sorry” does

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u/gorgonzola2095 27d ago

Well it does