75 - Jody Azzouni: Formal Languages, Proof, and the Foundations of Mathematics
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The Problem With Translation in Natural Languages
If you're taking Hebrew to Aramaic or something, you could mechanically copy one thing over to the other because their letters are similar enough. But if you've got languages with any distance between them at all, natural languages, only certain sentences can be translated,. And usually you don't get a sentence. You get a paragraph. Because natural language words, they just are bundled together differently. This is true even of orinand. The trick is something like this. Look, you say something like John brushed his teeth and he got out of bed. In English there's a kind of implicit in English. There's a temporal linkage but we can cancel it in English. We can say something
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