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Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 3:39 am
Welcome to the Agora, portokalos ! I must confess, even though doing so gives rise to a certain degree of *glukonostimalgia, that the word «*nostos» doesn't remind me of very much at all. Where did you happen upon it ?...The word nostos reminds me the word νόστιμος. ...
Thanks, I’m happy to be here.
The word is difficult. Full of negative sentiments. Especially to the people who live out of their country. I just with apo wanted to give a more optimistic note to that word. To remain their recollections sweet and the pain to be raised
this word is the term for the archetypal hero's 'return quest' as seen in the Odyssey. I had originally wondered about its relation to 'nostalgia' it seems to have spark a 'tasty' discussionthe word «*nostos» doesn't remind me of very much at all. Where did you happen upon it ?...
from OdysseySo now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home except Odysseus, and he, though he was longing for his return [nostos] to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, ...
What Swedes name 'pain Riche' is 'baguettes' to a Frenchman. Not very sweet or even tasty though, but far away from that plastic abomination of a bread imitation that the English dub "Mother's Pride".I'd like a tranclation better like:a sweet tasty pain.
That must be why this thread gives the impression of starting rather abruptly ! Is there a page missing, in which the origin of «nostalgia» was discussed ?......
I had originally wondered about its relation to 'nostalgia' it seems to have spark a 'tasty' discussion