#missing words

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Record Label History: 2-Tone Records (TT10)

The Selecter

Missing Words (1980)

[m00wd]

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[punkrockmixtapes]

The Selecter - Missing Words (Official Video) [HD Remaster]

[elfwreck]

Sir: From monsieur, "my lord" Polite form of address for a man.

Ma'am: From madam, ma dame, "my lady" Polite form of address for a woman

???: From "my liege" Polite form of address for a nonbinary person, or someone of unknown gender

[benil-evorsi-naselo]

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So Cretis is just straight up missing now.

Zant, what did you do?

@twili-king-zant

[retrocgads]

UK 1983

[earlgreymon]

i hate myself for continuously edit my writings after i posted it.

[floatingbook]

French has no single word for “womanhood”. It has “féminité” for femininity, and “womanhood” is often translated with “féminité”, which is a mistake because “féminité” has connotations that “womanhood” doesn’t have. “Womanhood” refers to the state/condition of being a woman; “féminité” contains all the stereotypes of being a woman, most of which are tied to beauty and personal grooming. I guess the best translation of “womanhood” in French would be “être une femme” (literally “to be a woman”). But this lacks the consistence, the unity of a single word. How can we talk about that which we have no word for?