OMG! I wanted to keep quiet until everyone had a chance to offer their
thoughts, (natural facilitator stance) but I must say that these
thoughts and offerings are RICH.! Thank you all most
heart-feltily/fully.
The question remains about opposites to the word "lonely"..
Stephane (I can't find the keyboard for the accent) ... do your offered
words have feeling associated with them? Like "lonely" does?
Aside from Stephane's response, I'm interested in that we have Celtic,
African, and American Indian but not Indo-European... Comments?
Merci!
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On 30 Sep 2014, at 19:54, Harold Shinsato via OSList wrote:
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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