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What’s the point of having different languages if people are just going to translate between them?
by satisfice 4y ago
What’s the point of having different languages if people are just going to translate between them?
- Loocid 4y agoCulture, history, the impossible task of getting billions of people to agree on a standard.
- evolve2k 4y agoYes! Also innovation. There are many instances of certain languages recognising a concept for which there is no direct translation in other languages. The spread of concepts across languages has provided meaningful benefit over thousands of years. People who are multi-lingual also speak of how after immersing in one language or another they start to dream and think in a new language and this adjusts their thought patterns. The affect of our dominate language on us is not neutral and different languages bring different benefits and framing.