The Topic is Tango

Nice! There is never enough words to convey ideas. Isn't the whole point in a never-ending search for the right words, which becomes an experience???

Etinoi language has separate words for the varieties of loss: loss of a small object (most likely misplaced); loss of a large object (most likely destroyed or stolen); loss of a person, exactly as we mean it in English, by death; loss of a situation or a way of life - one's job for example; loss of a state of mind or being, such as security, contentment, success. And each of those distinct words for loss can be modified by suffixes that indicate whether the thing lost can possibly be regained - t a n f o s-o u d e, the misplaced object found, or t a n f a n o r i-o u d e, success somehow regained - or it is lost for good: t a n f e n d i-n o u d e.
Still, none of the words seems to be to the point when the loss is part of one's own experience. So keep going...

The very definition of Gong, and so many applications - Tango, martial arts, life! I can't decide whether the last sentence is a thought-provoking paradox or just an irritating translation, though. Share the source?

Hi Nikki -

I no longer remember where I got this translation from -- I just plucked it from some online page as it went by. I googled the first line just now, and dozens of sites are reprinting the same translation.

Yes, I think the last line is quite paradoxical! :-)

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