Chris - thanks for the tie back to Cynefin! It does sound like a
profound opposite of lonely, 'your places of multiple belongings'.
Your explanation of Cynefin stimulated my recollection of the meaning of
another possible opposite of lonely, the word Ubuntu, from the African
Ngali Bantu language meaning 'I am what I am because of who we all are'.
On 9/30/14 5:29 PM, Chris Corrigan wrote:
Although I don't speak Welsh, one word I find very compelling is
Cynefin pronounced "kuh-NIV-en". I know the word because it's the name
of of complexity framework. But it also means "your places of multiple
belonging". That refers to the fact that all of us feel many different
homes and many different places where we feel connected in the world
in English there's no word that can capture this sense of multiple
belonging but I do like the idea that such a sentiment need to name.
In Anishnabemowin which is the language of Ojibway and related peoples
of North America, the word indinewmaganik means "all my relations" but
is actually better translated as "I belong to everything." That's as
good an opposite of "lonely" as I can think of.
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On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:19 PM, John Watkins via OSList
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And I would add this, a beautiful poem by Raymond Carver, which
pretty well defines my sense of the opposite of lonely:
Late Fragment - by Raymond Carver
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.
John
On Sep 30, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote:
Annamarie,
Thank you for a lovely question! The opposite of lonely is what I
very often experience in Open Space. This theme also resonates to
much of what we talked about on the OS Hotline today.
I must confess to have used an internet thesaurus to answer your
question. http://www.thesaurus.com <http://www.thesaurus.com/>. In
English at least, some opposites of lonely are (the emphasis in bold
is my own):
* populated
* *sociable*
* befriended
* *close*
* frequented
* inhabited
* *loved*
* unlonely
Warm Regards,
Harold
On 9/30/14 4:54 AM, Annamarie Pluhar via OSList wrote:
Hi all,
For work that I'm doing that has nothing to do with OS... because
there are a lot of people on this list who are multi-lingual I hope
that you will forgive me for asking an off topic question.
For those who have a mother tongue (father tongue?) that is not
English.... Does your language have a word that is the opposite of
"lonely"?
Feel free to respond to me off list..
annama...@pluharconsulting.com
Thanks!
Annamarie Pluhar
Pluhar Consulting
http://www.pluharconsulting.com
802.451.1941
802.579.5975 (cell)
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