Date:  Tue, 17 Feb 1998 19:42:20 -0500 (EST)
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From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jorge_J._Llamb=EDas?=" <jorge@INTERMEDIA.COM.AR>
Subject:      Re: Summary so far on DJUNO
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Rob:
>One can most definitely apply subjectivity to language. Every single
>language on this planet has it's own cultural relativisms imbedded in it.
>For example, words like "gestault" have no English translation, one can
>come close to gestault by translating it as "wholeness" but
>"wholeness" !=3D "gestault".

"Gestalt" is an English word, according to my dictionary: a structure,
configuration, or pattern of physical, biological, or psychological
phenomena so integrated as to constitute a functional unit with
properties not derivable by summation of its parts.

Even if there were no such word in English, we can still explain its
meaning, can't we?

co'o mi'e xorxes