I’d argue I’m fairly bilingual and chose here to speak lenglish, or at least mix the two, because the vocabularies don’t overlap 1:1. (And because I don’t spea

I’d argue I’m fairly bilingual and chose here to speak lenglish, or at least mix the two, because the vocabularies don’t overlap 1:1. (And because I don’t speak either language with enough conviction or precision, both tribes tend to identify me as belonging to and speaking the other.) I’d also argue lenglish has a much greater academic focus on labeling, categorizing, and identifying things, and has more words to describe more things, where renglish does not care and sticks to traditional meanings of words and ignores differentiations it finds irrelevant, trivial, or nonsensical. Because my example of something hard to translate in the other direction didn’t feel as politically correct, I chilled and withheld it. Or at least thought the current climate would be more frowning of such an example. But here it goes. How would you translate this from lenglish to renglish? “Lesbian Trans-woman”. A lenglish speaker could parse and expand that to mean “A woman born with a penis, who identifies as lesbian” but a renglish speaker would argue “a straight man.” Then you start getting into descriptions being pejoratives in one language but celebrated in another. The languages have two very different meanings of man. On top of that, they might have a phrase like “straight white male” that means roughly the same thing, but in one means victim and the other perpetrator. If you choose to localize the translations do you keep or swap mean connotations for happy ones? Are translating and localizing two distinct processes than need to be toggled on and off independently, depending on intent?