> Each participant read aloud 15 identical passages that had been translated into their mother tongue I doubt there is an objective way to ensure that no infor

> Each participant read aloud 15 identical passages that had been translated into their mother tongue I doubt there is an objective way to ensure that no information is lost or smuggled in when you translate a text into another language. For example, English has more than 100 words for 'walk', whereas Toki Pona (a constructed language known for its extreme simplicity) has only one. But does 'stroll' encode the same amount of information as 'tawa'? Depends on what you want to use that information for, I guess. If you only want to know where I went this morning, they are equally good. If you want to know that my act of going there was a recreational activity, possibly part of my morning routine, they are not.