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@july
What you lose in translating words from one language to another You lost the subtle cultural nuance of what the words actually means
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July
@july
This nuance is everything Without this nuance, we flatten into a world devoid of richness of culture
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
As the old saying goes, translation is treason
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@jrh3k5.eth
A friend was in Germany and learned a regional way of saying "eureka!", which, when translated literally, is, "There's the salad!"
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Alina Ferry
@alinaferry
Literally part of a plot of Kuang’s Babel
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Angelika Kollin
@angelikakollin
Being able to read books in original is main reason I continue learning languages.
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@sidshekhar
100%. meaning is so much more than what an english dictionary defines it to be
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@comz
when I was a child pondering on language evolution, i naively assumed they would eventually invite words for every nuanced situation, feeling, even complex once in a lifetime states of being
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@gokhan.eth
they don't get what a language is usually so don't worry. japanese. normal for you. it activated my flux capacitor. ideograms are 9 dimension beings. Even Kana!
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@trupty
this cast just summarised R F Kuang’s Babel
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Tokenized Human
@tokenizedhuman
Learning other languages is soooo hard.
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@0xhashbrown
Ah but what of “that rare miracle when a translation stops being a translation and becomes...a second original” - Wistawa Szymborska She was referring to the translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching by Moira MacDougall
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@tophb
The first time I saw a movie in my native language with subtitles, I understood this, and how I have missed out on a lot of in-depth reading subtitles on movies in different languages
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@antaur.eth
which is why I have a degree of Weltschmerz looking at the world 😜 Sad thing is my son doesn't speak German at all and thus cannot grasp his cultural programming by his dad
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@toyboy.eth
Exactly, I learnt this when I started learning Latin, Sometimes a single word in one language can reflect a whole worldview that’s hard to capture in another.
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@bestcryptotwits
Do you think AI will solve this
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Ryan Yeung
@0xyeung123
Totally agree. Crypto being global requires local translation — any other platforms than Crowdin to use??
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OluShey.Crpyt
@theonlysheylex
Exactly. You can carry over the words, but not always the soul.
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@jabo5779
So we lose more than we gain? Does the fact we lose something mean we should not try and build something to address the problem in the first place?
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