User blog comment:CykeP/Negativity in Western VOCALOID Music/@comment-26192563-20160223102452/@comment-53539-20160229104405

I've said this on "Whats on your mind.." thread, but in the last couple of weeks I've read some stuff I feel is link to this.

So when a multilingual person changes languages, emotions change with them. Some languages are easier for them to express emotions in either because of familairly or method of speech. The differences between a 1st person spoken language like English and a 3rd person language like Japanese results in a very different style of expressing emotion. For example (and this isn't applied to all instances, this is just an example), English could be more personnel and therefore emotive so the emotions more strong, while Japanese happier because it is more impersonal.

Also the words you know and how you understand the power behind them (like "ouch" and "Shit" expressing pain) are easier in primarily languages (your prime language you learn) then secondary languages (additional languages you learn on top of that language). Children who learn more then one language generally have better understanding of emotions by the time they are adults then who who learn just 1 or learn them as adults.

Maybe, baring this in mind, that we likely have more powerful words with negativity then happy? :-/