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Also because of the fact, that some languages have words that don't even have direct one-to-one correspondence, so translating a word in one language translates as a phrase, which even when knowing this, makes our brains not create a link.
Because there are multiple phrases you could translate the text to based on what you interpret of the sentence as a whole, and there are some sentences that could be translated to multiple things and or back, leaving multiple options. (These sentences are most often tried to be made and said by politicians)
Mar 23 · 2 months ago
Translation Considered Harmful — I speak two languages fluently. The first one I learned like everyone does - with adults correcting and cajoling me along the way. When I went to school, I started learning English, but after 3 years I has learned next to nothing - alphabet, some grammar rules, some words. But I was unable to put a sentence together in real-time. I then moved to the US, when I realized that no, I could not understand anything, and what little I could say, the locals found very...
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