Words of Comfort in the Italian Language
Words of Compassion
Parole di Cordoglio
The headlines were no less horrible in Italian: “Morte e devastazione in Giappone.” (Death and devastation in Japan.) “L’apocalisse in Giappone.” (Apocalypse in Japan.) “Disastro nel Pacifico” (Disaster in the Pacific.)
Italy – like Japan and California – lives with the constant threat of a terremoto (earthquake). Italian even has a word for “un terremoto in mare” (an earthquake in the sea): un maremoto, which creates the muraglia d’acqua (wall of water) we call a tsunami. But even in Italian non ci sono parole (there are no words) for such a cataclisma, calamit
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