![]() Here, again, we see the connection between “pity” and “piety” as worship, duty, obligation, displays of emotion, acts of servitude, and charity. ![]() ![]() ![]() Either way, inherent in the sense of “guilt” is the possibility of punishment or retribution-a type of exchange. When one does not repay this debt, one feels a sense of guilt-a word which comes from the Old English gylt, meaning “crime, sin, moral defect, failure of duty.” Gylt is perhaps connected to the Old English verb gyldan (‘pay, repay, yield, punish, sacrifice to, serve, worship’), from which also come the words “guild” (‘group of tradespeople’) and “gild, gilt” (‘cover with a thin layer of gold’). It’s relevant to note that duty comes from the Latin debere-a construction of de- (‘away’) and habere (‘to have’), meaning “to keep something away from someone” or “to owe.” From this, we get our term “duty-free”, as in “free from taxes or fees.” A sense of duty is a sense of indebtedness from it one feels obligated to repay. Instead, there is a sense of transactional duty, a display of one’s own piety… via “mercantile” exchange. What is lost between “pity” and “compassion” is the sense of explicit togetherness. The word “pity” there gains its meaning of a “disposition toward mercy,” or a kind response to another’s suffering. When one receives “mercy,” one says merci (‘thank you’). Pity, on the other hand, stems from the Latin pietatem, which means “piety, loyalty, duty.” In Old French it becomes pite, pitet, meaning “compassion, mercy, pitiful state, wretched condition.” Mercy shares the root merx (‘wares, merchandise’) with the word “market” it is a gift, wage, or reward given to someone deemed to be in a wretched condition. This still leaves some murky water between them.Ĭompassion comes from the Latin compassio (‘com’ + ‘pati’), which means to “suffer with” or “endure with.” It’s also a loaned translation of the Greek sympatheia (‘syn’ + ‘pathos’) which is “suffering together” or “feeling together,” as pathos describes anything that touches the emotions. “Mitleid” (‘pity’) was originally a translational loan-word to render the Latin word for compassion. This is a very interesting distinction in the German terms, but there is a bit more to it. In German you can find the difference in the words: - pity = Mitleid -> to suffer with someone -compassion = Mitgefühl -> to feel with someone The comments are below.What would you say is the difference between pity and compassion? A mech Elden Ring? Oh, sir, would you take our money?įor now, let us know what games you’ll be playing from our July 2023 list on your Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and through Game Pass. Oh, and there’s the small matter of a FromSoftware game, with Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. August is traditionally not much better, but we cling onto a hope that something rises to the top.Ĭandidates include Atlas Fallen, Madden NFL 24, Immortals of Aveum (if it ever stops being delayed) and Blasphemous 2. There’s no denying that the list of best Xbox and Game Pass games for July is on the sparse side. Perhaps a peripheral of the future will help us out. Venba is a game that we wish we could smell, as the dishes look sublime. It’s also a family drama, as branching dialogue options frame the cooking. We like to save a spot in the Up Next for the month’s gorgeous indie darling, and that spot has been taken by Venba.Ī narrative-infused cooking game (yep, sold already), it’s the tale of an Indian family moving to Canada in the 1980s.īy cooking meals that fill their kitchen with aromatic memories of the country they left behind, Venba becomes a story of abandoning home comforts, and making a new world for the future. Venba could be the pick of the July bunch
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