It might sound like a silly question AV but what is the English for 'bungalow' and 'bicycle'?
That's exactly why I asked, 'bungalow' is an Indian word brought into English when there was a lot of British people in India, 'bicycle' is a Latin word concocted when the bicycle was invented, there is no English words for bungalow or bicycle, there have been many thousands of words brought into English in the last 300 years.My answer might sound silly, but would it be "bungalow" and "bicycle"?
If you were able to transport yourself back to 1940 there would be about 3000 words in your vocabulary now that you could not use because they wouldn't know what you were talking about, go back 300 years and we would be aliens.
When the bible was translated the opposite was true, it was more like guess work than translation, people simply made stuff up.
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