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Sentence #1273638

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maaster maaster May 16, 2018 May 16, 2018 at 8:56:11 AM UTC link Permalink

Does it mean anything?

CK CK May 29, 2018 May 29, 2018 at 8:58:49 AM UTC link Permalink

Do these make sense?


eng
I wanna want.
ita
Voglio volere.
spa
Quiero querer.
ukr
Я хочу хотіти.
ita
Io voglio volere.
eng
I want to want.
epo
Mi volas voli.

deniko deniko May 29, 2018 May 29, 2018 at 9:49:42 AM UTC link Permalink

The Ukrainian sentence does make sense. I thought English did too, in Ukrainian this would mean that someone is apathetic or even depressed - in general, or about something, and they do realize they don't want anything, but they want to have this feeling of wanting something, because they remember how good it felt.

So basically "I know I have no desires, but I do want to have desires"

"I'm really apathetic about my children. I don't want to see them, to play with them, to have anything to do with them. They depress me. I want to be a good parent. I want to want to see them. But I just don't".

maaster maaster May 29, 2018 May 29, 2018 at 10:01:34 AM UTC link Permalink

I do want. ? I'd like to want. ?
However, I wanna want = I want (it) (I want to do it, but...)


Analog to: I'd like to like her (, but...)

brauchinet brauchinet May 29, 2018 May 29, 2018 at 10:23:14 AM UTC link Permalink

And now something really tricky:
I'm not able to be able to want to want.

I want to want to want, but as much as I try, I can't.

deniko deniko May 29, 2018 May 29, 2018 at 10:37:01 AM UTC link Permalink

> I want to want to want, but as much as I try, I can't.

You can go even deeper with this :)

It's kind of similar to the concept of "knowing". I know it. You know it. But I don't know if you know.

Ok, I now know you know, but do you know that I know that you know?

And ad infinitum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLqBmpKCncw

There was also a Friends' episode about this, I believe.

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #1273635Voglio volere..

I wanna want.

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