Sometimes there are few things we can say really, thats all language is, an attempt to explain things. Emotions perhaps are never really done much justice. How does one really explain and show someone how we truly feel using language? It is near impossible.
For example, someone may have any varying degrees of happiness.
Another prime example is the emotion depressed. The child who was beaten in school today may come home and say he feels depressed. Meanwhile, the man who puts a double barrel shotgun into his mouth and pulled the trigger, making a puree of his brain may have said the exact same thing moments before pulling the trigger.
So language really cant truly hope to fully emphasise emotions, perhaps it can to closer degrees now with the larger vocabulary in each language, but it is all merely subjective and often changes from day to day. One person can explain the exact same emotion and feeling completely different, therefore complicating the matter even further. And unless there is a standardisation of emotional expressive language, which with my own admission is foolish and reduces the people's rights to creative expression and freedom, then emotions can not really be done justice. I guess perhaps non verbal language is more useful, though that too can be controlled by anyone who is skillfull at reading body language and manipulating it, a fascinating area in itself. I guess a combination is equally useful and we all pick up non verbal ques. It all comes down to purpose, reasoning and aims of the emotive expression. Since individual susceptability to different emotive responses varies as the weather does, this itself provides another issue. Someone may react deeply grieved one day and the following day, the same event or trigger may trigger a defensive, aggressive response.
But such is the limitations of verbal and non-verbal language. Where deception is common, misinterpretation a distinct possibility, and individual variability, a factor to contend with.
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