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<DIV><FONT color=#800080>First, the word is that John is well and attending to
every day life stuff as we all do.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800080>Second, I got to thinking about the word
"Feelings". In IOM, there are words for "feel" as in touch; there are also
words, often adjectives that can be rendered as intransitive (stative) verbs,
i.e., feel ... (good, bad, sick, helpless, angry, relieved, ignored).
I have "hurt someone's feelings" and "feel like...(whatever...sleep, standing,
speaking).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800080>But a word for the genre, I find nothing. I
looked up cognate languages for "feelings" and what little I found, tend to give
results similar to what I have in IOM. I looked in Johannes' Hochank,
Carolyn's Osage, Mark's Omaha, Buechel's Lakota and Williamson's Dakota.
Noone seems to take up the subject of Abstract Notions.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800080>Maybe it is not worthy of discussion, or not a
legitimate concern.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#800080>I dont recall that the list has had discussions on
abstract notions. Unlike the nouns of material stubstance, they tend to be
a bit elusive. But they are indispensible to mature conversation in any
language.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#800080>Jimm</FONT></DIV>
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