"No worries." I love that expression. Two of our daughters spent semesters in Australia back in the 90's, and both came back with that expression. Now it seems like you hear it a lot. (What a nice import!)
It's interesting that we often think of a vacation as a time of "no worries." Yet, our vacations often bring out our own worries, anxieties, stress points, etc., so they sometimes fall short of our pre-vacation dreams. We study the topic of stress a lot in our psychology courses at Granite State College...
Just for fun, I did some research to find out different expressions (and in different languages) that essentially mean "no worries." Here are a few: in French, "Sans Souci"; in Italian: nessuna preoccupazione (I love that one...sounds like "nothing to preoccupy"!); in German, keine Sorgen; in Spanish, no so preocupe.
Okay, I cheated, here's an amazing website that translated that phrase into 24 languages: http://www.howtosayin.com/no+worries.html
At our house, we have a mosaic that I had made for my husband's birthday one year by Matthew Fallon, a wonderful artist who also made a beautiful stained glass panel for the Chelmsford Public Library, in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. (Matthew's two sisters used to babysit for our children.) Here's the panel in Chelmsford's library, which shows a wonderful pictorial history of Chelmsford, where our family lived for 24 years:
And here's the mosaic Matthew made for us:
The Latin translates loosely to, "Leave your troubles at the door." Sort of a Latin take on "no worries"!
So, geen zorgen. (That's Dutch. I like that one!) Oh, and you can even take courses in American Sign Language at our Claremont campus.
It's interesting that we often think of a vacation as a time of "no worries." Yet, our vacations often bring out our own worries, anxieties, stress points, etc., so they sometimes fall short of our pre-vacation dreams. We study the topic of stress a lot in our psychology courses at Granite State College...
Just for fun, I did some research to find out different expressions (and in different languages) that essentially mean "no worries." Here are a few: in French, "Sans Souci"; in Italian: nessuna preoccupazione (I love that one...sounds like "nothing to preoccupy"!); in German, keine Sorgen; in Spanish, no so preocupe.
Okay, I cheated, here's an amazing website that translated that phrase into 24 languages: http://www.howtosayin.com/no+worries.html
At our house, we have a mosaic that I had made for my husband's birthday one year by Matthew Fallon, a wonderful artist who also made a beautiful stained glass panel for the Chelmsford Public Library, in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. (Matthew's two sisters used to babysit for our children.) Here's the panel in Chelmsford's library, which shows a wonderful pictorial history of Chelmsford, where our family lived for 24 years:
And here's the mosaic Matthew made for us:
The Latin translates loosely to, "Leave your troubles at the door." Sort of a Latin take on "no worries"!
So, geen zorgen. (That's Dutch. I like that one!) Oh, and you can even take courses in American Sign Language at our Claremont campus.
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