> Related, I've often wondered whether people have categorized languages by how they change the way you think. This probably has a lot to do with the society

> Related, I've often wondered whether people have categorized languages by how they change the way you think. This probably has a lot to do with the society of speakers that you use your language with. For example, you use a very different register with very different thought patterns with your gangmates in your bad teenage years than with the client at your luxury sales job. There are concepts that will be simply be taboo to express to either speaker that would be natural conversation in the other. I really disagree that there are expressions that are impossible to express in language, barring that limitation. Either a circumlocution will give an approximation (including where the original is ambiguous), or an expression can be coined to be introduced to that language, the society of speakers willing.