LL-L "Language use" 2005.08.29 (06) [E]

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From: "Global Moose Translations" <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L "Language use" 2005.08.29 (03) [E/LS]

Jacqueline wrote:
> (Writing this I am again painfully aware, how much easier English would be
> if they would only use Dutch idioms!!!!) and so it goes!

That's why, in our trilingual household (German, English, Dutch), we often
switch languages to and fro within the same sentence, because there is a
much better expression for what we're currently trying to say in the other
language, or because we're quoting directly.

Let me tell you which word I find hardest to translate from English, because
it has no "all-inclusive" equivalent in German - it's like the Inuit having
no word for "snow" in general, just 50 words for all different kinds of snow
(yes, I know this is not really the case, but it serves well for
illustration here). The word is "mind". There is Geist, Sinn, Verstand,
Gemüt, Seele, Psyche, Vernunft, Gefühl, Intellekt, Kopf, Hirn, Seelenleben,
Verständnis, along with quite a few other aspects, but a word for "mind" - a
word that I really like in English - does not exist in German.

I am very painfully aware of that because I am currently responsible for the
German version of the adventure game "Psychonauts", where you play a boy who
can psychically immerse himself in other people's minds, and I have to go
through a lot of pain in order to come up with decent equivalents all the
time.

Gabriele Kahn

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