Hello @amberkashif,

I noticed that you've followed me, and I came to your blog to look around. :D

Thank you for these delightful musings about language. Language has always fascinated me. I'm a native English speaker, but in the course of my life I've picked up tiny bits of German and Hungarian, quite a bit of Spanish, and I have studied biblical languages; some Hebrew, and quite a lot of Greek.

For reasons very similar to the ones you've described, one of my ongoing projects (begun perhaps two years ago now) is attempting to read through the New Testament in its original Koine Greek language. After studying Greek (on and off) for much of my life, I wanted to really immerse myself in it. I believe that Jesus is truly God himself, become one of us, and I want to continually increase my understanding of what he has had to say to us all. BTW, I am approximately 2/3 of the way through the book, and continue to learn new things all the time. :D

The bible informs me that it was by language that Jesus created the world and all we see in the universe; he spoke, and it all came into being. And I wrestle with the general impossibility of translation all the time, in my own mind, and especially when I read translations of the bible. You give some great examples in your article.

In fact, for quite a long time I have been writing an occasional series of articles that I call "The Curmudgeon's Bible," in which I complain bitterly about what I see as very bad translations of particular words or passages of scripture. :O

All of this is meant to tell you that it was a real treat for me to find this lovely post of yours today and to "meet" someone here on Hive with a common interest in language. :D Thank you for your work. I hope sometime "YOU" might give us some insight into the actual differences between Aap, Tum and Tu because I would find that fascinating. ;)

Cheers!

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