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If you accept "modern" words like twerking,I would bet that English is the language with the biggest number of untranslatable words, for the simple reason that
by oneloop 10y ago
If you accept "modern" words like twerking,I would bet that English is the language with the biggest number of untranslatable words, for the simple reason that nowadays most culture is first produced in English.
- germanier 10y agoThere is plenty of (pop-)culture produced in other languages. It's just people not speaking those languages not noticing most.
- oneloop 10y agoThere's a couple of orders of magnitude more culture being produced English than any other language (I speak three other languages)
- germanier 10y agoI wouldn't be so sure that there is less produced in Mandarin than in English. Spanish and Arabic might be behind but definitely not an order of magnitude. Also don't forget things like the massive film industry producing in Hindi. Also, you original claim was that English produces more "culture" than all other languages combined which is definitely wrong. Not even one out of seven speaks English. Are you really claiming that English-speakers have on average more than six times the cultural output than non-English-speakers? (I also don't know what your definition "produced culture" is as life is not a game of Civilization, but that's besides the point.)