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Lost in Translation with Shaun Stanley

Brain in a Vat

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The Different Sentences in Guinea

In Guinea, in this tribe, their sentences didn't work this way. Their sentences were very, very differently constructed. So they found that there wasn't a subject in the sentences. And in fact, their sentence structures were so completely different that according to Waugh, it was impossible to translate their sentences adequately into English and vice versa. We literally live in different worlds, applying it to the COVID case. Maybe it's the case that Sweden is now in a different universe. Can you imagine the universe generated by Donald Trump? Right. But secondly, I'll recount an experience I had, or at least a thought I had, some years ago. During the think in the aftermath of

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