Soviets always use words which mean almost the reverse of what they mean to us. So peaceful co-existence does not in any way mean peaceful.
Words created divergencies between beings, because their precise meanings put an opinion around the idea. Music only retains the highest and purest substance of the idea, since it has the privilege of expressing all, whilst excluding nothing.
"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."
There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.
Language is very deceiving. In certain languages, there is certain vocabulary that doesn't exist in other languages. It totally changes how people feel about things.
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
You say potato; I say potahto..." I say integrity; you say deceit.
We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.
Hebrew has a system of tenses, which is, in a big way, different from the English system of tenses, probably different than any European system of tenses, which means a different sense of reality, which means a different concept of time.
