RE: July 2025 - Word Count Data, Top Authors and Musings on what data can't teach me
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I very much respect true polyglots - I can only speak two languages - English, and whimpering. Three, if you count whatever language we all had in common as infants. However, the mere fact that you understand that there is differences and sometimes, no other way to truly express the same thing in different languages in the same way is fundamental to your understanding of what it is to actually communicate.
To, instead of just brute force the translation - but to treat it with nuance.
Good to check, but hey, I do tend to use that click translate button from time to time, and it is enough for the general purpose of a post to come across. Where I become conflicted, and feel a sense of absolute entitlement, is where I want to respond - should I do it in English, or should I write it in English, then translate to the language the origiinal, then hope my message isn't lost - or that people think I have a mastery of other languages.
Yes I understand what you're saying. I keep writing in English because it's all practice for me :) But when I'm writing very long posts, it's much easier and quick to write in Italian and then translate and check. I should do the "quote" thing to put translated parts when needed, instead of repeating the whole post though