creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

when living as a nomad in europe across a bunch of countries last few yrs, i always wondered how much of the “feeling” in words i was missing when they spoke into google translate

also found it interesting that sometimes there would be three similar english words that all translate to the same word in the other language

Language is alive - it’s a living reflection of the speakers of that language, their wants, their desires, their needs, their hopes and dreams and history and past. 

Of course it’s one thing to explain it; but it’s another thing to live it - and I do think a good amount gets lost in the translation

That’s why I think it’s great when dead languages, or languages that were suppressed (or still are today) but survived: Basque, Hawaiian, Ainu, Galige, Maori, Tibetan, Tatar, Kurdish etc etc

even among native speakers of the same language there is entropy. if i say hey july, i have this bad ass robot, you and i both have a different image of it. in a way, this is kinda like shannon info entropy in some way b/c the full signal doensn't carry. i find this fascinating too.