Ilunga (Bantu)

[NonEntity]

No, Virginia, life is NOT binary, even if your language pretends that it is and makes you look and act like an idiot!

BigThink.com Wrote:Ilunga (Bantu): A person who is willing to forgive abuse the first time; tolerate it the second time, but never a third time.

Apparently, in 2004, this word won the award as the world’s most difficult to translate. Although at first, I thought it did have a clear phrase equivalent in English: It’s the “three strikes and you’re out” policy. But ilunga conveys a subtler concept, because the feelings are different with each “strike.” The word elegantly conveys the progression toward intolerance, and the different shades of emotion that we feel at each stop along the way.

Ilunga captures what I’ve described as the shade of gray complexity in marriages—Not abusive marriages, but marriages that involve infidelity, for example. We’ve got tolerance, within reason, and we’ve got gradations of tolerance, and for different reasons. And then, we have our limit. The English language to describe this state of limits and tolerance flattens out the complexity into black and white, or binary code. You put up with it, or you don’t. You “stick it out,” or not.

It's a process!

- NonE

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Debate: Does language shape how we think?

78 % vote yes
22 % vote no

check it out.

- NonFungible

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(11-24-2011 03:52 PM)NonEntity Wrote:  No, Virginia, life is NOT binary, even if your language pretends that it is and makes you look and act like an idiot!

It's a process!

Debate: Does language shape how we think?

78 % vote yes
22 % vote no

check it out.

- NonFungible

WATCH OUT Carolina, it's A TRAP!! Yes or no = binary thinking!!!

[bonus: computers aren't processes because they're binary...!?! text can be if'n it's grey... oh, and think about it: Eastern versus Western is also a binary trap...]



--NonLingo2

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[Dionysus]

(11-25-2011 06:28 AM)eye2i2hear Wrote:  WATCH OUT Carolina, it's A TRAP!!

[NonEntity]

James M. Buchanan, "Order Defined in the Process of its Emergence" Wrote:...the "order" of the market emerges only from the process of voluntary exchange among the participating individuals. The "order" is, itself, defined as the outcome of the process that generates it. The "it," the allocation-distribution result, does not, and cannot, exist independently of the trading process. Absent this process, there is and can be no "order."

The above is just a snippet. Dig in.

- NonE