Native tongue/translations

Thu Apr 24 23:44:43 UTC 2003

At 4/24/2003 04:15 PM -0700, Annie G Ross wrote:
>FYI
>some words are impossible to translate effectively, by choice.
>for example, i was in a meeting where the entire proceedings were in
>Hopi.  the only words in english were
>pesticide
>BIA
>tribal council

I don't get it.  Why are these impossible to translate into Hopi?  And what
does "impossible... by choice" mean?

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