Words are given meaning, identities, by, for and amongst those who use them... for what purpose they agree is appropriate and rational. When you take an English word and put it in a conversation in Siberia, what does it mean? Does it lose its identity?
In a more familiar way perhaps…… If a tree falls in the woods and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?
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