VN Ren'Py My Dorm [v0.18.2 P2 Ch.6] [Trope95]

[Trope95]

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Thank you!
I've said it several times, and I stand by it. This was my first AVN community and I think you deserve everything I can give you. One of the greatest pleasures of developing this game is, for me, having been able to talk to fantastic people in this thread and on Discord.

 

[d@lt0n]

I get confused every time I read "sad laugh". I can't think of a real life example. Can anyone exemplify one to me?

 

[WICKEDp4th]

I get confused every time I read "sad laugh". I can't think of a real life example. Can anyone exemplify one to me?

Simply a fake or forced laugh with a serious facial expression.

 

[FatGiant]

I get confused every time I read "sad laugh". I can't think of a real life example. Can anyone exemplify one to me?

 

[Trope95]

I get confused every time I read "sad laugh". I can't think of a real life example. Can anyone exemplify one to me?

Just as WICKEDp4th and FatGiant said. I would also add when someone is sad about something but doesn't want their interlocutor to notice, and forces a laugh.

 

[Trope95]

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[Uthuriel]

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[d@lt0n]

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I would call that a smile. A closed mouth smile. maybe a sad smile depending on the situation, but not a laugh. Am I just lost in translation?

 

[d@lt0n]

Just as WICKEDp4th and FatGiant said. I would also add when someone is sad about something but doesn't want their interlocutor to notice, and forces a laugh.

The closest I imagined by that is a sarcastic laugh or a "ha. ha." By what you said it's probably the later. Sorry to nit pick, I'm kind of a stickler when imagining my reading and I legitemately want to understand the intent!

 

[Elhemeer]

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[Trope95]

I would call that a smile. A closed mouth smile. maybe a sad smile depending on the situation, but not a laugh. Am I just lost in translation?

Something like this. It's a laugh that doesn't have any happiness in it, or when you realize mid-laughing that it affects you in a sad way. In Spanish we say "Reír por no llorar" (laughing to avoid crying)

 

[xapican]

Although similar, the facial expresions are iterpreted differently, what Trope FatGiant a few other users from here sharing "hispanic - romanic culture " call sad smile, Can be read in the Germanic - Angloamerican Culture as "pittyfull smile"
I persnally have my fun, with the 28 jhr old son of my better Half, and he with me missreading our facial expressions, (he was near 2 when he got to the US and he grew up there) they are similar but often have a different meaning.
"sonrisa triste", y would translate as sad smile and into german as trauriges lächeln, or gequältes lächeln (for the last you could say tortured or painfull smile)
There is a saying from the Argentinan Poet Almafuerte,: Smile because it is better to have a sad smile in life, as the sadness of a life without smile ( Sonrie, mas vale tener una sonrisa triste en la vida, que la tristeza de una vida sin sonrisa

 

[FatGiant]

"Smile even if it is a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile"

It is a version of what xapican quoted, but it is the version I've known all my life.

It is quite common in Portugal, this concept of a sad smile, or has TropecitaGames said, "Laughing to not cry". It is a bit of a surprise that it isn't common everywhere. I've seen it so much on visual media, that it never occurred to me that it wouldn't be.

Peace

 

[Elhemeer]

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"Smile even if it is a sad smile, because sadder than a sad smile is the sadness of not knowing how to smile"

It is a version of what xapican quoted, but it is the version I've known all my life.

It is quite common in Portugal, this concept of a sad smile, or has TropecitaGames said, "Laughing to not cry". It is a bit of a surprise that it isn't common everywhere. I've seen it so much on visual media, that it never occurred to me that it wouldn't be.

Peace

Honestly, I grew up in the USA understanding a sad smile or a sad laugh, although rather than "laughing to not cry" I thought of it as "Laughing to hide pain." Also grew up in a Jewish household, so that could be a factor.

 

[FatGiant]

Honestly, I grew up in the USA understanding a sad smile or a sad laugh, although rather than "laughing to not cry" I thought of it as "Laughing to hide pain." Also grew up in a Jewish household, so that could be a factor.

Yes, we are painfully aware how hard it is for you guys to openly cry. We don't have it that hard.

Peace

 

[xapican]

FatGiant the version from Drumond de Andrade, is the original

 

[Uthuriel]

Honestly, I grew up in the USA understanding a sad smile or a sad laugh, although rather than "laughing to not cry" I thought of it as "Laughing to hide pain."

I thought it's "Don't get shot at school..." instead...

 

[FatGiant]

I thought it's "Don't get shot at school..." instead...

 

[xapican]

I thought it's "Don't get shot at school..." instead...

That is a typical situation of "Laugh to not cry" the truth is so sad, that to cope with it is it better to tackle it with humor !

 

[Trope95]

Honestly, I grew up in the USA understanding a sad smile or a sad laugh, although rather than "laughing to not cry" I thought of it as "Laughing to hide pain." Also grew up in a Jewish household, so that could be a factor.

In most cases on My Dorm the "Laughing to hide pain" would be applicable to the *Sad Laugh*. It all depends on the pain intensity.