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but again this is what I was saying. The english language has no words for some ideals and concepts that exist in other languages. Some languages describe every subtlety. Because of this and because of the fact that we have words that sound the same but mean different things and common spelling for different words that sound different and so on. People coming to learn english can be confused a lot. I know this because I'm an instructor and have to deal with people who are still new to the language.
No all people will have the same issues.. but many do.
Look at translations for movies.. where the mouth is moving like crazy and yet 3 words come out.. or the reverse where they say one thing and yet the voice is still struggling to explain the concept of the one word they had said. Or they will try to match the mouth movement and essentially change the meaning or context of what was going on in the orriginal.
as for cats.. a cat again as I say.. is a master CATegory
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(sorry play on the sound of the word, shat)
Seriously though, we will both have many words that we directly translate over without taking the full concept of them with the word. If you think about how those translations can first arrive.. it's two people who do not understand each other so they point to something and name it.
a man points to someones hat and says "geegeet" what is he saying? Hat? black hat? is it the style of hat? does this hat show his statition? like in the case of a crown? there are a number of interpretations.. once someone decideds it means hat.. and it's a common use.. then the explanation to fix the error just becomes part of the whole eplaination of the cuture. "Yes, their hats show their house. So if you see a blue hat he is from the royal house, if he wears a red hat he is from the workers guild" and so on.. so.. they still think HAT.. not Hat of status or whatever new translation could be used..
I think I'm just confusing the issue now and I have to go to work anyway
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