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Interesting, but it doesn't get at the more important question of whether or not the same meanings can be communicated in different languages, whether with one
by woodandsteel 7y ago
Interesting, but it doesn't get at the more important question of whether or not the same meanings can be communicated in different languages, whether with one word or several.
It seems to me that every language must be able to, for instance, convey that a situation is such that harm may occur. Perhaps it has one word like "danger" that covers all such situations, or different words for different types of harm that may occur, but the basic meaning is the same.