This was VERY interesting! I asked one of my Macedonian friends on a forum I go to, and she said they don't use the "cold shoulder" for rejection; instead, they say "giving you a recycle bin". =]
We have two words for cold, namely "Liliwa (of weather and atmostphere) and Batabata (of cold water and frozen food etc) ". Liliwa is sometimes used to decribes the feeling when one is rejected. Batabata though is sometimes used to describe the hypothetic feeling in the hands, when it received a large to very large some of money.
Fijian Language (in several dialects), and we use the English Alphabet to write it out. If I were to greet you, by saying "Hello Buddy" I'd say "Bula Vinaka Buddy."
So this way of describing rejection exists in other languages besides English. I thought it might be like that. What language is usually spoken in Fiji?
This was VERY interesting! I asked one of my Macedonian friends on a forum I go to, and she said they don't use the "cold shoulder" for rejection; instead, they say "giving you a recycle bin". =]
Alright! The next time someone says to me, "Bula Vinaka Buddy," I'll know what they're talking about.
Thanks; I'll look at that.
This article was on the BBC News site last month. It's about a study that has found that lonely people feel colder.
We have two words for cold, namely "Liliwa (of weather and atmostphere) and Batabata (of cold water and frozen food etc) ". Liliwa is sometimes used to decribes the feeling when one is rejected. Batabata though is sometimes used to describe the hypothetic feeling in the hands, when it received a large to very large some of money.
Fijian Language (in several dialects), and we use the English Alphabet to write it out. If I were to greet you, by saying "Hello Buddy" I'd say "Bula Vinaka Buddy."
So this way of describing rejection exists in other languages besides English. I thought it might be like that. What language is usually spoken in Fiji?