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30/07/2008 11:15:44
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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30/07/2008 10:08:35
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Politics
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Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01333768
Message ID:
01335264
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>>No, the example was just another attempt to explain the usage of the word. I presume we can drop the matter, having got nowhere - if someone as openminded as you can't see a possible use for the word, then, well, it won't exist. I'm just glad I don't have to translate anything anymore, because I'd run into this on the next corner.
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>Ah, now translation is a whole different issue. I can see where the problems would arise when trying to do a translation. I just couldn't see any problem in simply using the language.

Though I generally don't subscribe to Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, there are things that language forces you to do. After visiting a couple of languages I can see how some things are not done at all in one language while being perfectly normal in another, plus the whole spectrum of cases in between.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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