On 01/08/2014 12:20 PM, John Carter wrote: >>> Very well written, a pleasure to read. > >> And very hard to translate! :) > > Leaping off the immediate topic of computer language D into the realm > of human languages English and Turkish... > > With the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis in the back of my mind... > > What makes it harder to translate?
What made is harder to translate was myself because I found some of the sentences in the original article more complicated than my little mind could handle. :)
I find languages fascinating myself. Agreeing with everything you said, merely the innateness of the whole thing and the way languages mutate on their own is sufficient fascination for me.
Ali