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Language is culture, good luck injecting chinese expressions into english... they just don't work. Language is the way we think, translating the way we think t
by 1stop 13y ago
Language is culture, good luck injecting chinese expressions into english... they just don't work.
Language is the way we think, translating the way we think to one language changes how we think (i.e things are lost).
> The times where each country could have their own soup are over.
There are more people who don't care about the anglosaxon world than there are people who do care (China is a prime example here).
- mkr-hn 13y ago> Language is culture, good luck injecting chinese expressions into english... they just don't work. Ni hao English has a lot of loan words and imported phrases, and new ones are always on the horizon.
- sliverstorm 13y agoClearly he means expressions, e.g. idioms and that sort of thing. It's time to jump off the stage at Kiyomizu Quick, without using Google tell me what I mean.
- mkr-hn 13y ago> Clearly he means I wouldn't have posted if a different interpretation were clear.
- sliverstorm 13y agoNi Hao is not an expression any more than Hello is. Expression: a word or phrase, esp. an idiomatic one, used to convey an idea.