Von Neumann Languages

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    When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    What a lesson here for our world. One blast, thousands of years of civilization wiped out.
    —Kurt Neumann (1906–1958)

    The very natural tendency to use terms derived from traditional grammar like verb, noun, adjective, passive voice, in describing languages outside of Indo-European is fraught with grave possibilities of misunderstanding.
    Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1934)