Message to the ones having the makings of a statesman

[felizitation]

I think Armenia really need something like "Armenian Academy", in order to be able to traduce the following words:

Necrophililiac - Necrophagous
Pyromaniac
Zoophiliac

... etc ... every bad things that exists in our countries and that simply we can't name in Armenian.

What are the words you want to be able to traduce ?
Do you think that being unable to name an act, there is necessarly consequences on behaviours ? (for instance: "zoophiliac" word doesn't exist: thus there is less zoophiliac)
I've sawn such a link for naming colors ...

[TJ]

personally i dont think that being unable to name an act has a consequence on behaviors. but i think it would be a good idea to set up a wing of the gov. to make up names for words like that

[felizitation]

Originally posted by TigranJamharian personally i dont think that being unable to name an act has a consequence on behaviors. but i think it would be a good idea to set up a wing of the gov. to make up names for words like that

Tkxs.
But concerning the fact that the semantic power a language may have, and its consequences on behaviours, I'm pretty dubitative.

The knowledge of a word is like the knowledge of an idea.

If you consider a language on which the word "freedom" has never existed, the population would suffer from a pain it won't be able to designate.

Of course, this example is rather exagerated, but what about the words "pedophile", "serial killer" etc ...

I don't know if it's allowed to do this analogy, but inexistance of a word is like preventing an idea. Before wars for instance, we have seen several times people burning books, intellectuals putted aside etc... In order to avoid thinking, privating people from the ideas the may have allowing a unique entity to think for them.

I simply don't know, that is why i'm waiting for your answers.

[TJ]

well i see where you are going but i think that whether or not people define something by a unique word they still have an understanding of what it is and whether it is positive or negative. i mean just because Armenians dont have a word for a man that likes to inflict pain on himself doesnt mean that they dont view this as abnormal/not acceptable behaviour.

but on the other hand i see how for example not having a word for democracy perhaps might hamper the spread of the idea and not allow it to be as accepted as possible but then i think that in this case people just adopt the word from another language and make it their own.

So in the end i dont think it has much of an effect on the population but it is always good to have a unique language that does not need to adapt words from other languages to make it their own. and also i believe that these words might also come about naturally, maybe part of the reason why Armenians dont have words like necrophile or what not is because our population has always been relatively small and we have not had too many people like that and therefore there has been no neccesity for a word like that to be created, so in the end i believe that over the course of years the language will evolve naturally and will be able to accomodate the population.

[xBaron Dants]

I'm sure there are words for it. We just don't know them.

[felizitation]

Originally posted by Baron Dants I'm sure there are words for it. We just don't know them.

Yes/No/Don't know. The dictionnaries I have are very limited.

[sleuth]

felisitation... please rely on your own beautiful mind, because <<armenian academy'' does exist and they are word rapers.Here you are a few raped words ....

macaron--- erkara_klora_xmora_tsak

plentuz_ hataka_mijna_patayin_manrahatak

podakolnik_ patuhanagog ( tsaxike patuhani gogine)exact translation would be( the flower sits on lap of window)

in fact vord zoophilac does exist in armenian lol but please don"t raise the guestion to traduce that word or put in in a dictionay ,because it sound very vulgar in armenian I dont have enough gats to write it down ....

[jahannam]

Originally posted by Baron Dants I'm sure there are words for it. We just don't know them.

INDEEED

[felizitation]

Originally posted by jahannam INDEEED

By the way derak, there was another question underlying the thread: influence/knowledge of the vocabulary on every day's life or attitudes.