One thing that I love about dreamwidth: it seems that I can verify that users are utilizing HTML to do their posts?
In learning Japanese.. there would regularly be a sensation of: "You can't translate the feeling that the translator is going through, to express what they are. " You can translate the words... but the amount of effort it takes to get to a sentence in a second language is a euphoric feeling of accomplishment. You can be sad, and express sadness, but you lose the sadness in the joy of what you found. ...which sometimes looks more like sadness in what you lost to find it.
I remember that old question about HTML being a programming language or not, which I think is still up for debate. When I see HTML users.. I say to myself: "these folks at least semi understand the value of language to a level greater than a monolingual person." ..but I don't look at HTML like I look at Japanese at all. The transformations of information are so very different. You're not changing the sounds or images.. I guess you could be.
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Date: 2024-02-06 07:05 pm (UTC)In learning Japanese.. there would regularly be a sensation of: "You can't translate the feeling that the translator is going through, to express what they are. " You can translate the words... but the amount of effort it takes to get to a sentence in a second language is a euphoric feeling of accomplishment. You can be sad, and express sadness, but you lose the sadness in the joy of what you found. ...which sometimes looks more like sadness in what you lost to find it.
I remember that old question about HTML being a programming language or not, which I think is still up for debate. When I see HTML users.. I say to myself: "these folks at least semi understand the value of language to a level greater than a monolingual person." ..but I don't look at HTML like I look at Japanese at all. The transformations of information are so very different. You're not changing the sounds or images.. I guess you could be.