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Impossible translations: why we struggle to translate words when we don’t experience the concept

Impossible translations: why we struggle to translate words when we don’t experience the concept

If Danish speakers experience hygge, then they should have a word to talk about it; if English speakers don’t, then we won’t.

04.12.2025 9

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Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know Proto-Indo-European must have existed?

29.09.2025 10

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