in thread "It's The Asian Century": But socialism has a different lineage in English. Socialism makes one think of communism, McCathy, and Bernie Sanders.... 2w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 2.9 2.9 0.2 0.2 But socialism has a (view hidden) log in to judge received 2.9 2.9 0.2 0.2 Is it capitalism though? If your opinion is that it's better to not argue over translations for practicality you could just say it, but your premise that the characters/linguistic vibrations don't mean anything is false. I don't see how words with fundamen... 1w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.7 1.7 Is it capitalism tho (view hidden) log in to judge received 1.7 1.7 Sort of see what you're saying, but it's likely transmission was written, not spoken. If it was spoken we would've ended up slight variations such as 米国 ("rice country") and 美国 ("beautiful country"). So adding more languages when Korean is Hanja or... 1w ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.7 1.7 Sort of see what you (view hidden) log in to judge received 1.7 1.7 Yes, it's connected to English words that are translated as -isms. I see this account on Twitter which makes me wonder what it would look like if English was the positioning of nouns next to each other without declension and conjugation with the removal of... 6d ago (collapse hidden) log in to judge received 1.3 1.3 Yes, it's connected (view hidden) log in to judge received 1.3 1.3