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Linguistic mental health

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10:40AM
Jun-08-08


Mev Porter

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On the subject of words that may promote mental health-

In Portuguese and in Arabic there is a word (saudade=Portuguese; orba {transliteration}=Arabic

for the concept of looking back on home, childhood, loss love, etc. with a feeling of longing and wishing to return to that state of being or place

Commonly used in songs in these languages to express a feeling with which we are all familiar but do not have a word for