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| Oct 15, 2017 at 2:34 | comment | added | NanningYouth | There is a word in Chinese 家 which can have the meaning of "home", "family", "household", or even "clan", so that professor may have used wrong word in English to describe the thing, or it is impossible to use only one word of English to describe all these things or aspects of the same thing, because they are not equivalent. In one language, it is no problem to do so, but in another, you have to use more than one words to cover all. Perhaps I have made myself across. | |
| Oct 14, 2017 at 19:08 | history | edited | James K | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 14, 2017 at 15:13 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 3.0 |