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being bilingual is utterly mundane for something like half the people on this planet and yet it is a mind-opening thing that's like… hard to communicate to people who literally have only ever spoken one language in their lives
no, you don't know everything if you only speak one language! no, you won't get it through translation alone! it's one of those things that you have to experience to fully understand i think. i guess there might be some incredibly open-minded monolinguals out there but
@hikari I want to say all translation is approximation, but I feel like that's not so much strictly true as it is a useful thing to assume.
@Catriona no, it's always approximate
