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<div>David,</div> <div> </div> <div>If you're looking for lexical gaps as well as words/expressions/concepts that just don't translate well, try looking at some online dictionary sites such as:</div> <div> </div> <div>Leo for German</div> <div><A href="http://dict.leo.org/">http://dict.leo.org/</A></div> <div> </div> <div>or WordReference for Romance languages</div> <div><A href="http://www.wordreference.com/">http://www.wordreference.com/</A></div> <div> </div> <div>and take a look at the forums. I think you'll find a lot of information there.</div> <div> </div> <div>Caroline Reul<BR><BR><B><I>shenanzhu@yahoo.com</I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class="replbq" style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid;"><TT>Mongolian has no word for 'privacy'... some awkward construction could be conjured up to explain the notion, but there is no single word in the language for the concept.<BR><BR>-Andrew<BR><BR><B><I>Wayne
Leman <wayne_leman@sil.org></I></B> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class="replbq" style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid;"><TT> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">The Cheyennes, one of the most well-known of the North American Native American tribes, have no word for "tribe." They simply refer to each tribe, including themselves, by that tribe's name.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Wayne</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2">-----<BR>Wayne Leman<BR><A href="http://committed.to/fieldtesting">http://committed.to/fieldtesting</A></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,0,0) 2px solid;"><TT>David,<BR><BR>I work with a highly individualistic group in Panama (also in Colombia). For the most part, foreign ideas such as those we are faced with in translating the Bible can be communicated. But since you are looking for cases where the culture dictates the lack of certain words, I have one. The individualistic Emberas
have no word for "group". They have plenty of words for activities that groups do, they differentiate collective and individualized plural number and so on, but no word for "group".<BR><BR>-Chaz MOrtensen</TT></BLOCKQUOTE><!-- |**|end egp html banner|**| --></TT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <div> <HR SIZE="1"> Blab-away for as little as 1¢/min. Make <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman2/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39663/*http://voice.yahoo.com">PC-to-Phone Calls</A> using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.</TT> </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></tt>
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