I think in English both sympathy and empathy work in this situation.
In several other languages a derivation of sympathetic is a really useful term with a very different meaning. "Sympathique" in French refers to someone who is a neat nice person that you feel an affinity to.. or some such thing. It's really really hard to translate. It's a word that would be really helpful to have in English.
In any case, Wisteria, I like the name as well, very fun, very appropriate! I'm sorry that you're feeling wiserable in all this. It's fascinating (although I guess not shocking) how often the theme of procrastination comes up on this blog.
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Posted by Turquoise Stuff to academicsecret at 8/07/2006 10:26:48 PM
