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On 10/12/12 12:23, tom wrote:
Tom, you get worse. One comment in this thread was about jealousy and envy, They are quite different. Envy is general, jealousy is personal.On 10/12/12 12:04, Julian Hall wrote:On 10/12/2012 09:22, Philip Hudson wrote:On 10 Dec, 2012, at 8:55 am, tom wrote:I think in the case of place names it's more to do with letting go of the arrogance that we know better than the locals how to pronounce their own towns and cities. China's not the onyl place by any means. Nurnberg for example in Germany is a damn sight easier to spell than the anglicised Nuremberg. JulianThe old one was a trial wasn’t it? Tom te tom te tom
Example story.A young man lives alone. Next door live another young man with a beautiful, loving wife. If the young man says to himself 'I wish I had a beautiful, loving wife' that is envy.
If he says, 'I wish that beautiful, loving girl next door were mine' that is jealousy.
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