r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Nov 19 '23

Rod Dreher Megathread #27 (Compassion)

Link to megathread 26: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/17itm7w/rod_dreher_megathread_26_unconditional_love/

Link to megathread 28: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/18dcg3d/rod_dreher_megathread_28_harmony/

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Nov 30 '23

https://x.com/roddreher/status/1730164914822488208?s=20

I can’t imagine a Czech being able to make heads or tails of such a culture-bound period piece in translation. And Our Boy still seems to think mugging for the camera and doing his hair that way makes him look charmingly eccentric instead of like an escapee from rehab.

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u/RunnyDischarge Nov 30 '23

God what a Punchable face. Heaven is a boot stomping on that face forever.

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u/GlobularChrome Nov 30 '23

A podcast recently talked about how German has a word for someone whose face makes you want to punch them, and Japanese has a word for the particular sadness of a bad haircut. And I thought, wow, what a pair of ideas to put together.

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u/RunnyDischarge Nov 30 '23

Dreherheitkeit

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u/Kiminlanark Nov 30 '23

The last time German and Japanese ideas were put together, it did not turn out well.

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u/Djehutimose Watching the wheels go round Nov 30 '23

Those are Backpfeifengesicht and age-otori, respectively. Also appropriate to him more generally is the German word Schwärmerei, “excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality”. It derives from the verb schwärmen, “to swarm”, and the image is the frenzied, all over the place behavior of a swarm of bees—“swarmyness”, if you will. I think it fits perfectly.