@soothfast saidLagom är bäst.
@Torunn
You're Swedish, yes? Do you have a favorite, uniquely Swedish quote?
“Lagom” is best.
(…”lagom” describes an amount balanced by your judgment and discretion, sufficient for its purpose, a fair share, not encroaching on other’s rights).
Explained as: in the old days when all the family ate from the same pan, you only took a share that allowed the others to have theirs. (Lag = group,team / om = around)
'Lagom', an often used word - not too much, not too little.
29 Sep 19
@torunn saidAh, interesting!
Lagom är bäst.
“Lagom” is best.
(…”lagom” describes an amount balanced by your judgment and discretion, sufficient for its purpose, a fair share, not encroaching on other’s rights).
Explained as: in the old days when all the family ate from the same pan, you only took a share that allowed the others to have theirs. (Lag = group,team / om = around)
'Lagom', an often used word - not too much, not too little.
I certainly cannot think of an English equivalent to that. Perhaps "All things in moderation" in a few circumstances, but just a few.
Thanks! 🙂
29 Sep 19
@soothfast saidPerhaps an English equivalent might be a quote from William Blake’s Proverbs of Hell. This ends with the admonition:
Ah, interesting!
I certainly cannot think of an English equivalent to that. Perhaps "All things in moderation" in a few circumstances, but just a few.
Thanks! 🙂
“Enough! or too much!”
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims,
one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms,
like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
- George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)