Posted: Oct 23, 2012 12:09 am
by jamest
Tursas wrote:
jamest wrote:I've come across, for instance, some English words that don't translate at all into other languages.

Examples?

To save me thinking, I did a google:

http://listverse.com/2011/07/13/10-hard ... ish-words/

Conversely, there was a site which explained how many 'foreign' words cannot translate into English:

http://www.thegoodword.co.uk/2011/01/27 ... o-english/

The point is that it's not always easy, or apparently possible, for other languages to adapt to each other. This is why I wondered whether there were some languages unto which the supposed objectivity of maths does not translate.