Translation fallacy
In linguistics, the translation fallacy is the concept that essentially no word, phrase, text or speech in one language can be reliably translated into another language without loss, addition or other change of meaning. For example the sentence "I am eating." in English, is translated into German as "Ich esse". (lit. "I eat") because German lacks a continuous present tense. The translation fallacy is demonstrated here because "I eat" can be considered a generalised statement of fact ("I also swim from time to time"), and has gained a new meaning.
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