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Strategies & Market Trends : The coming US dollar crisis

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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (10873)9/8/2008 3:20:25 PM
From: dybdahl5 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 71454
 
Much of that can be explained using normal psychology. I grew up bilingual German/Danish, and even though I speak both languages perfectly, I'm not able to translate between them. Later, I also learned English, and I cannot translate between English and Danish/German either...

I was at a meeting in east Europe (not Russia) with an important person. He spoke his native language, and I spoke English. The translator translated everything he said into English, and translated my sentences into Russian... why Russian? Because the translator learned English from a Russian-speaking teacher.

Also, if you look into MBTI personality type indicator, it is based on a model where the brain has 4 centers, and only one of them is close to the speech center. If your ego is far away from the speech center, chances are that you're not so precise in your speech.

Reality is much more complicated than what language can ever describe, and the choice of language is an important factor in developing a culture.
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