Do you think in Serbian or English now? (Or both) :o)


>>Off topic (apologies) but I came across this and thought you would get a kick out of it:
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>>http://blogs.officezealot.com/spiller/archive/2006/06/07/10519.aspx
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>Is this a coincidence or not - just last night I got an email from another prominent UT member, related to my ambiguity page. And the ambiguity mostly comes from the nasty habit of the language to overload existing words instead of creating new ones.
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>Actually, I do have a list of missing words in English (and I keep adding them as I remember them - and "remember" is also on it), but the right side of the list is corresponding Serbian words that don't have a proper counterpart in English. So this is what I asnwered:
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>On the Serbian side of the site, there's a long list of words missing in English that I caught over the last year or two. First there's maybe twenty words which are a translator's worst nightmare, because they absolutely don't exist in English, and then there's a longish list of words which can be translated only as second, third or lower meanings of other words. That's the translator's ordinary nightmare :).
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>Just look at it: http://ndragan.com/langsr/brezbesed.html
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>I've thought of translating this list into English, but that'd be too much work.
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>I'll surely add "mind" to the list.