[fhayek]

I understand that there is always something lost in translation. Languages are more than a medium of communication, they are a medium of thinking. I can accept that, but, when you try to apply obscure meanings to cold mathematical, physical equations, you really are straining things a bit. I mean, anything could stand for anything, and all you are left with is one of those meaningless arguments you had with your college roommate when both of you were stoned.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Then again, the French say some things that sound really, really bizarre to Anglo Saxons. I had a good friend who was French and who lived in America for years, and she still made airy-fairy comments like this. I think its just them. At one point in their history, this thinking allowed Napoleon to conquer Europe . . . . .