Re: RE [Cz-L] cora's remarks on the comments on bruce's comments

It is even worse than the translation problem the so called
"translatore = tradittore"thing. The context is always necessary but
some times also insufficient for understanding a speaker in your own
language. Is "love of God" your love for God, or God's love for you?
Or "Sell dog: eats everything and likes very much children"!
Language is just not perfect, and yes Cornel might have a point there,
everybody should go back and quarrel even with his Muttersprache.
Berti.

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:25 AM, cornel fleming
<cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net> wrote:
> Oh well ...I will just have to travel back to my misspent youth and
> complain to those who injected me with my Mutterschprache!!! Cornel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wolfgangs [mailto:wolfgangs_at_comcast.net]
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 2:09 PM
> To: 'cornel fleming'; 'Miriam Taylor'; 'alexander rosner'
> Cc: 'HARDY BREIER'; 'Czernowitz Genealogy and History'
> Subject: RE: RE [Cz-L] cora's remarks on the comments on bruce's comments
>
> With all due respect to Dr. Fleming's education, linguists
> [etymologists?] agree that languages are NOT fully translatable since much
> of the meaning of words is highly contextual. And, context is dominated or
> at least strongly influenced by culture.
>
> So, yes, you can convey a large part of the meaning by translation but it
> is never 100%.
>
> Wolfi
>
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