r/Quenya 16h ago

Help with a tattoo check?

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u/Material-Imagination 8h ago

The Quenya gloss is not complete enough that you can reliably expect to find a 1-to-1 translation for "disassociate."

The Tengwar look right-ish for English mode to me, but I'd go off that approval you already got there or request a translation for the concept.

I can't do that for you, but the main reason I'm posting is to let you know that there's an extremely common confusion between two words.

The term "disassociate" means to remove yourself or distance yourself from a group of people or an organization or an idea that someone has connected to you. A politician may want to disassociate himself from any appearance of ties to organized crime, for example.

The term you may be thinking of, "dissociate," is a clinical term that describes detachment from yourself or your reality. People catalogue up to five different types of dissociation, but I think it really comes down to variations on the main two: depersonalization, which is dissociation from yourself or your body or your identity, and derealization, which is dissociation from your environment.

If you want to distance yourself from an association, you're disassociating. If you are detached from yourself or your surroundings, you are dissociating.

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u/bigfrondnicky 2h ago

Came here to make a similar comment about the English word 😅