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Re:The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language by jameshart on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @07:27PM (#40138581)
Careful... it's a little too easy to ascribe things like that to a superficial cultural trait.

English has a huge variety of terms for extreme tiredness: whacked, bushed, wiped out, worn out, drained, burned out, beat, knackered, fried, shattered, frazzled, zonked... must be the puritan work ethic or something.

We've even got a few onomatopoeia of our own: feeling kinda.. ugh.. meh... bleugh... I mean, whew, yeesh. Just... phew.

Maybe being tired is just the global human condition.

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Re:The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language by edgyquant on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @08:07PM (#40138859)
It may be due to Protestant work ethic, no idea, but non of the English words you cited are actual onomatopoeias
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Re:The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language by jameshart on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @08:54PM (#40139205)
Well, ぐたぐた, へとへと and よたよた aren't exactly onomatopoeias either.
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Re:The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language by Jagerbizzle on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @08:07PM (#40138867)
Not to mention "sigh", which I find impossible to say without also sighing.
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