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Sometimes people are like "noooooooo I can't just translate Tian as Heaven or Dao as Way or junzi as gentleman, the terms have slightly different connotations and are used by this writer in a sort of distinct way". Nah. Writers in English use common terms idiosyncratically all the time. If you're worried we'll misunderstand, put an asterisk the first place the terms are used and refer us to a glossary. In the meantime, the reader will have a better understanding of what the terms mean.
In general I think we should translate more things so that you can understand what people are saying. E.g. "Hamas" is just short for "the Islamic Resistance Movement", call them that or the IRM if you want to save space. Most English speakers don't speak foreign languages, and it's important to be comprehensible!
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Bit difficult to find, here are a few things I did find in ~20min of searching:
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(1) There's some truth to this. Violent islamists are on average, worse than most people in various ways.
(2) But also, they may see it more as a direct insult to God as opposed to an insult to them personally or their human social group. Compare their stance towards practicing Christians and Muslim apostates. Both groups go to hell, on the conventional conservative Muslim understanding. But they are much more bothered by apostates.
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I agree that terrorists are in some sense not serious and tbh I think it's for the best
or rather, second best, behind "not being terrorists"
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I feel like the "introvert/extravert" axis bundles (at least) 3 things together in a kind of unhelpful way:
- low vs high need to socialize
- low vs high gregariousness
- low vs high desire to talk to people you don't know
These are sort of related, but I feel like usually when I hear people talk about extraversion or introversion they would usually be better served by appealing to a sub-factor rather than the bundle.
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Yeah, this seems true. How do you define 'gregarious' separately from the other things?
Other dimensions could be related to social anxiety, awkwardness, and/or masking. A lot of the time when I "don't want to talk to people" or it drains my energy to do so, it's because I feel uncomfortable in the situation, rather than because there's something I inherently dislike/find tiring about talking to people.
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in reply to Daniel Filan • • •i dont know words like junzi or Tian. With Dao I think we should use Dao. But shrug.
If this were about Buddhist terms I'd have more specific things to say.
But my sense of English is that it just doesn't even act like these other languages in very relevant ways. Pali/Sanskrit is super different as a language, for instance, and so you just can't translate the words into English without losing ~70% of the background meaning and connotation.
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in reply to Daniel Filan • • •oh i see.
yes i agree that context is important.
if you're just a casual audience, then i should use an English phrase in the conversation so you know what i'm saying at all.
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in reply to Daniel Filan • • •So you're saying people should write more like official subs and not fan subs youtube.com/watch?v=YvNxgHTWIl…
(I have never watched a fan sub but I have observed the urge of people who are really into a hobby using obscure language because they care too much about capturing nuances)
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