so you're........... a Linguist
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linguist, killjoy, same thing if you're a prescriptivist or a linguistic determinist
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I speak 5 languages and generally I find nothing untranslatable. Sometimes a word in one language takes a whole sentence in another. What I find funny is that in some languages a word accompanied by a particular hand gesture means something completely different than without it.
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That's really cool!
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It's such a weird and reductive way to discuss the topic. Some words can be difficult to explain but that's not because they're "untranslatable," just that there's usually some added context or nuance involved that makes casual use a little fraught.
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Hell, they don't even need to be foreign words for that to be the case. Lookin' at you, everyone who misuses "gaslighting."
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