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May. 21st, 2022 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sigmalephthe word "melancholy" used as an adjective is personally offensive to me. it should be melancholic. why make the noun and the adjective the same! we say choleric for the other bile-based personality type, don't we!
actually i guess in English 'cholera' is never used for the state of mind, just the disease. in Spanish we use the same word for the disease and for anger.
also it's kind of silly that four humour theory still lives on in words for different personalities. imagine if in two thousand years nobody has heard of harry potter but "hufflepuff" continues to exist as a word for describing a particular kind of person
actually i guess in English 'cholera' is never used for the state of mind, just the disease. in Spanish we use the same word for the disease and for anger.
also it's kind of silly that four humour theory still lives on in words for different personalities. imagine if in two thousand years nobody has heard of harry potter but "hufflepuff" continues to exist as a word for describing a particular kind of person
