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You just expressed these in English. Although you might spend far more words on it, and it might be hard to properly capture abstract concepts in another langu
by DCKing 12y ago
You just expressed these in English.
Although you might spend far more words on it, and it might be hard to properly capture abstract concepts in another language, these are not examples of concepts that cannot be expressed in English.
- pjmlp 12y ago> You just expressed these in English. From linguistic point of view, I explained them. Expressing means there is an English word with the same meaning.
- DCKing 12y agoWhat definition of "to express" are you using? Because expressing does not come with a single word restriction that I know of. I think you mean whether or not there is a translation of a certain word? We were talking about concepts being "expressable" in any language. Of course many words are not directly translatable (half of Chinese isn't, that isn't news to anybody), so that's not particularly interesting. But you'd be hard pressed to find a concept that is not at least explainable in English.