in the translation

One of the things I enjoy while studying Korean is the different words used to express things.

Example:

전쟁이 일어났다 – it literally translates to “war has awakened” 
It’s the phrase in Korean for saying a war started.
In English we might say “war broke out”, which is a very aggressive verb.  Normally I’d never think about that kind of thing, but when I learned the Korean expression it made me think about what how language subconsciously determines how its speakers think about something.

 

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