Thursday, March 22, 2018

The ‘hygge’ trend took America by storm. Just don’t try to translate it.

The Danish word “hygge” broke into American popular consciousness sometime in 2016, about the time it was shortlisted as Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year. Since then, hygge has appeared in everything from coffee-table books to a Hygge card game. It’s put forward as a magic bullet for our anxieties, collective loneliness and seasonal depression. Surely […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2018/03/22/the-hygge-trend-took-america-by-storm-just-dont-try-to-translate-it/

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