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#Sapir-Whorf-hypothesis
12 Untranslatable Words (and Their Translations) | David Shariatmadari | Commentisfree | The Guardian
Lexical fields (structuralism)
The second is the idea of structuralism, in which every part of the structure of a language is related. Think of it like this: the real world is a plain patch of ground, and language is a net we throw over it. Each time the net falls, every one of the diamond-shaped holes lands…
Sapir-whorf hypothesis
These examples of “untranslatability” are all wrong or just silly in their various ways. But it’s hard to shake off the feeling that there’s some truth in the idea that speaking a different language makes you see the world slightly differently: as though wearing tinted glasses…