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You know, when terms get transferred from other languages, they don't always retain the meaning from the original language and may undergo a semantic change in
by vore 3y ago
You know, when terms get transferred from other languages, they don't always retain the meaning from the original language and may undergo a semantic change in the destination language. For instance, nobody is going to characterize the modern usage of "demagogue" (originally just meaning "a popular leader" from Greek) as "purposefully misleading", and you shouldn't be doing that for these Chinese terms either. Also I don't know where you're getting this "intended cultural exclusion" thing from when that's what you yourself are doing in your comment by insisting your outsider interpretation of these terms in a different cultural context is correct. Thanks!