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kenmendin··on Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
I have migraine headaches and keep a headache diary. I see parallels between days with headache and tinnitus.
kenmendin··on German expressions that don’t exist in English
Geborgenheit: I always think this is a how a kid feels while sleeping on a couch under a blanket along with loving parents at a warm home while it is snowing outside.
kenmendin··on German expressions that don’t exist in English
I don't have a list of such expression handy. But there is one specific feature of Turkish language which I find interesting and really smart.

Check these words:

At, aş, it, us, su, ev, er, te, ot, et, ar, ön, an, in, un, en,

Literally translated: horse, food, dog, intelligence, water, house, man/soldier, far, grass, meat, honor, front, moment (time), shelter/cave, flour, most/width,

Many important aspects of daily was are words as short as possible and have survived thousand years of change and part of modern Turkish language. There are also a large number of 3 letter words for further important things such as ana (mother), soy (ancestry), boy (length/race), toy (young/unexperienced), and (promise).

kenmendin··on German expressions that don’t exist in English
Although German language is full of great words, the expressions from the post exist in other languages, even in my native tongue Turkish, which belongs to a completely different language family.

However in Germany these expressions are regularly used on TV,press and literature. They have become and are powerful building blocks of a German speakers thoughts, giving them an advantage to think better.

kenmendin··on Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
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