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2025-07-19 07:02 UTC
@jadedtwin@corteximplant.com @altruios@mastodon.social @level98@mastodon.social @WhiteCatTamer@mastodon.online @Eatsbluecrayon@rollenspiel.social
Precisely. ”Queen”, for example, is a word that has (had) many meanings. ”Queen Kristina” of Sweden –again, an example– wasn’t a queen. She never married, and the word used to signify the spouse of a king. She was crowned a king, though. Which of course changed the meaning of those words, at least in Sweden, but not the same way then as it later did.
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@thelovebing@mastodon.nu 2025-07-19 07:07
@level98@mastodon.social @altruios@mastodon.social @WhiteCatTamer@mastodon.online @jadedtwin@corteximplant.com @Eatsbluecrayon@rollenspiel.social It is enormously complex, chaotic even. And while every meaning of a word might be described in numbers (or a dictionary), those descriptions are not very exact (and that’s why translation is really hard, because it isn’t just about denotation).