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<div>Just out of curiosity, wouldn't repent fulfill that meaning? </div> <div>Mary Kaestner<BR><BR><B><I>Benjamin Barrett <gogaku@ix.netcom.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class="replbq" style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid;"><TT> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="765581300-23032006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">English lacks a good word for the Japanese hansei, which means to reflect on the things one has done wrong. To feel remorse seems more a state of guilt or at least emotion, rather than an serious consideration of the facts at hand. My experience has been that Americans are, indeed, reluctant to do this, so this lexical lack seems to be a reflection of the culture.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="765581300-23032006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="765581300-23032006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Benjamin
Barrett</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="765581300-23032006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2">Baking the World a Better Place</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir="ltr" align="left"><SPAN class="765581300-23032006"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><A href="http://www.hiroki.us/">www.hiroki.us</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR> <DIV class="OutlookMessageHeader" lang="en-us" dir="ltr" align="left"> <HR tabIndex="-1"> <FONT face="Tahoma" size="2"><B>From:</B> lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>David williams<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 22, 2006 1:20 PM<BR><B>To:</B> lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Lexicog] Words that are absent in particular languages<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV><TT> <DIV class="Section1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><FONT face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt;COLOR: navy;FONT-FAMILY: Arial;">You’re quite right Mike, I was looking more for omissions
which might reflect upon the culture or heritage or values of societies. For example if there were a language which had no counterpart for evil or good or truth or lust. I remember years ago reading of tribes which saw deceit as a virtue, although this might well have been apocryphal.<O></O></SPAN></FONT></div></DIV></TT></TT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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