The Magic of “Untranslatable” Words
The idea that &quot;our world [is] parsed and circumscribed as it is by the limits of our vocabulary&quot; is nuts. Just because there&#x27;s not a one-to-one correspondence between a word in a language and a word in another, does not mean you can&#x27;t express the same content through a combination of words and sentences.<p>The fact that the author was able to write this article and convey these concepts in English shows that the idea that vocabulary limits our experience is incoherent.