>not to mention those words that reflect something so unique to that culture that you can't really translate them You've inverted the role of language. Languag

>not to mention those words that reflect something so unique to that culture that you can't really translate them You've inverted the role of language. Language is what we use to communicate the things we feel, we gain essentially nothing from the words themselves. Even when you think you're communicating something very specific with the words you are using, there's little reason to believe that the person on the other end of the conversation really gets what you're trying to communicate. In a practical sense, you can easily communicate, but these deep, almost mystical, meanings you're implying... it's just not really something that can be known. The is the point of the indeterminacy of translation illustrated by W.V. Quine.