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refloats t1_je7c4du wrote

Actually it’s not muscles. It’s a network of ganglia, neurotransmitters, protein and support cells, just like in our brain - aka the heart brain / intrinsic cardiac nervous system.

For example: we realize we are in danger. This is intuitive and sensed with the heart. As a reaction, the heart sends this to your brain, who can send signals to the body to make it ready for action / be alert.

The heart is a big part of your intuition, based on experience, while your brain is the more rational one.

If you’re ever interested in what they’ve researched so far, you should read this.

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araralc t1_je7bqrb wrote

Yeah, usually the "this word doesn't exist in another language" is about concepts or other things that are culturally influenced. But somehow I've seen a bunch of those lists or mentions that are actually just a simple German composite that can be translated into other languages if you don't make "it gotta be a single word" a rule. So like, completely translatable stuff. I always saw those and would think it was like saying "starlight" isn't a word in Portuguese because "luz estelar" are two words, but with bigger merges.

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CurrentIndependent42 t1_je7ashh wrote

I think the key part is they said they watched ‘American movies’ (presumably in English) ‘dubbed or subbed’, which means they’re probably not themselves first language English speakers.

So if they were watching some scene with a spelling bee (from context), and saw/heard the translation of the word in question, it would be a word in their own language, and probably not at all hard to spell, since in most languages apart from English (with a few exceptions), that’s the case.

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