#aufhebung

(poll at the end)

사람, saram (Korean)

[ˈsʰa̠ɾa̠m]

Translation: Person

Korean is spoken by 50 million people in South Korea and 25,4 million people in North Korea. It is almost an isolate, a language unrelated to other languages, except that there’s another Koreanic language spoken on Jeju island whose speakers are switching to Korean. The Korean script, Hangul, is pretty interesting: It’s the only big writing system which is featural, which means that the way characters look are based on how the sounds they represent are produced in the mouth, so that similar sounds look similar.

Motivation: It’s one character off from 사랑 which means love and I think that’s neat. People are about love!!

Aufhebung (German)

[ˈaʊ̯fˌheːbʊŋ]

Translation: There is no English equivalent; it can be translated as "to sublate", "to abolish", "to transcend", or "to supercede" (also "to pick up", "to raise", "to keep", "to preserve", "to end", "to annul", or "to pocket").

German is an Indo-European language belonging to the Germanic branch and spoken in Germany by 80 600 000 people and 133 250 000 people worldwide. Or is it? That is true for Standard German, which is part of the Continental West Germanic dialect continuum stretching from the Netherlands to Austria, and including High, Middle and Low German dialects as well as Dutch. Standard German is a High German variety (High German refers to dialects and languages in southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria). Parts of the continuum aren’t mutually intelligible, but sinch Standard German has been the writing norm for centuries and used in education, media and administration, people can understand each other anyway since some regional differences have mellowed in the last generations, although some Low German dialects in the north are closer to Dutch than High German dialects in southern Germany.

Motivation: It's a unique German word that's important for Marxist and Hegelian philosophy, conveying the idea of the death of something while still maintaining the old within the new; to simultaneously abolish while preserving.

Of course, anxiety is what does not deceive, but what does not deceive is what does not become signifier, what does not partake of Aufhebung. It is the real remainder.  This real remainder is jouissance, in as much as it does not let itself be captured by the signifier, the irreducible jouissance of the pleasure principle, and, it is anxiety, in as much as it is the affect of displeasure which connotes the non–signifable. Lacan begins his seminar with the formula: “anxiety is the sign of the desire of the Other,” but it will be surmounted by another formula in Chapter XII, “anxiety is the signal of the real.” The essential function of anxiety is not its liaison to desire, but its liaison to the real.

爆炸, bào zhà (Mandarin Chinese)

[paʊ ʈʂa]

Translation: explosion

Chinese is a Sino-Tibetan macrolanguage (a dialect continuum consisting of different varieties that are distinct languages based the criterium of mutual intelligibility, but commonly referred to as a single language) with around 1 350 300 000 speakers that consists of 16 recognised languages, often referred to as dialects. Out of these, Mandarin Chinese is the largest, as 70% of Chinese speakers have it as their native language. The Beijing dialect of Mandarin forms the basis of Standard Chinese, which is the national language and taught in schools all over China.

Motivation 1: Super fun to say (BAO ZHA allows for some intense chest yells!!), lovely meaning, has become a joke among my friend group and our Chinese teacher thinks it's very funny

Motivation 2: Explode is an inherently funny word. Also me and my friends learned this word back in like Chinese ii (super early on, we were still learning basic grammar) and our Chinese teacher does not like it very much. Once they got in trouble for putting it in a presentation that was being graded for our ib myp certificate (international baccalaureate; bigshot honors program).

Note: This was submitted as Mandarin Chinese by at least one of the four submitters of this one word (thank you for sparing me the detective work). The two best motivations were put on the post

Aufhebung (German)

[ˈaʊ̯fˌheːbʊŋ]

Translation: There is no English equivalent; it can be translated as "to sublate", "to abolish", "to transcend", or "to supercede" (also "to pick up", "to raise", "to keep", "to preserve", "to end", "to annul", or "to pocket").

German is an Indo-European language belonging to the Germanic branch and spoken in Germany by 80 600 000 people and 133 250 000 people worldwide. Or is it? That is true for Standard German, which is part of the Continental West Germanic dialect continuum stretching from the Netherlands to Austria, and including High, Middle and Low German dialects as well as Dutch. Standard German is a High German variety (High German refers to dialects and languages in southern Germany, Switzerland and Austria). Parts of the continuum aren’t mutually intelligible, but sinch Standard German has been the writing norm for centuries and used in education, media and administration, people can understand each other anyway since some regional differences have mellowed in the last generations, although some Low German dialects in the north are closer to Dutch than High German dialects in southern Germany.

Motivation: It's a unique German word that's important for Marxist and Hegelian philosophy, conveying the idea of the death of something while still maintaining the old within the new; to simultaneously abolish while preserving.

To reconstruct ethnonationalism through a Right Hegelian lens is to move away from the "Left Hegelian" project of totalising universalism. While Left Hegelianism seeks to dissolve the particularities of culture, race, and nation into a global, abstract Spirit (Weltgeist), Right Hegelianism asserts that the Universal can only be realized through the Particular. In this framework, the nation is a necessary mediator between the individual and the absolute.

Attempting to understand/interpret Hegel: