Re: air conditioning may be making us fat

Mxsmanic wrote:
EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) writes:

Being unable to translate something into another language
does NOT mean one cannot comprehend - and appreciate -
the original!

Actually it does. Anything you can understand, you can explain in
English (that is, you can translate it).

This reminds me of the old claim that one hears so often in language
circles: "Oh, I can understand it, I just can't speak it." In
reality, that never happens: if you can understand it, you can speak
it. If you can't speak it, you can't understand it. You cannot have
one without the other.

Another laughably false statement.

For example - a Norwegian may understand Swedish perfectly well. That
doesn't imply that they can speak it. They may recognise that a Swedish
word is sufficiently similar to its Norwegian counterpart that they can
understand it. That doesn't imply that they know, or can guess, what
any given Swedish word is.

A person who cannot write grammatically flawless French can still
understand French.

A person may understand a German sentence, but that doesn't mean that
they can write or speak one with the correct word order.

Idiot.

B;

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