Americans have no single word for when people gain weight from emotional binge eating, but Germans call it “kummerspeck.” Examine this concept in terms of its codability.
What will be an ideal response?
Codability is a language’s ability to express a thought. In this case, this concept would be highly codable in German but not in English. However, this is an example of a concept that is easily understood even without the single word.
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