admiration, adoration, aesthetic appreciation, amusement, anger...
July 30, 2019 7:05 AM Subscribe
How does one classify the emotions? In an Atlas or an Enyclopedia? Around a Wheel? As a Tree? In a Periodic Table? What is an emotion anyway?
Also, here's a nice map of hard-to-translate emotions from around the world (I think posted here several years ago?), by Pei-Ying Lin.
posted by Beardman at 9:15 AM on July 30, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by Beardman at 9:15 AM on July 30, 2019 [3 favorites]
A map of subjective feelings, plus the paper it’s drawn from and some comments.
posted by Segundus at 9:20 AM on July 30, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by Segundus at 9:20 AM on July 30, 2019 [3 favorites]
My high school German classroom had a poster on the wall which gave the German names for about 80 Gefühle, illustrated by cartoon facial expressions. If only I’d had a mirror I could have looked up the German word for the emotion of "baffled and somewhat alienated to think that my fellow humans, whose species I ostensibly belong to, distinguish 80 outwardly visible emotions in the first place, let alone associate each one with a distinct facial expression which they can recognize in caricature".
Nowadays, such a poster (and I’m sure this exists) could use emoji as a standard grounding. But there's enough confusion about what common emoji mean to make me feel like maybe I was never that weird to begin with. 😑
posted by aws17576 at 10:11 AM on July 30, 2019 [1 favorite]
Nowadays, such a poster (and I’m sure this exists) could use emoji as a standard grounding. But there's enough confusion about what common emoji mean to make me feel like maybe I was never that weird to begin with. 😑
posted by aws17576 at 10:11 AM on July 30, 2019 [1 favorite]
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posted by Segundus at 9:11 AM on July 30, 2019