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i was studding linguistics and something got me thinking. it seems that i couldn't find answer anywhere so maybe this question is stupid
so for example: we want to connect two concepts. "car" and "blue". so we connect: "car is blue"
my question is about next time we want to connect those concepts. they will be already connected so we say: "blue car". but we dont talk like that without verb
so why do we need to say "car is blue" instead of "blue car"?
There is nothing but to study obscure languages until you feel like you have learned whatever you are looking for. Some people have done that, and they say there are languages so strange that they can't be translated to English at all. Some languages have no concept of past or future, they only have verb forms for action begun and action completed. Some languages have no general nouns; that is to say there is a word for a species of animal, and another word for a different species, but no word for just "animal". Ancient Greeks seem to have limited awareness of colors: "sea" and "wine" were the same color. Here is an ebook analyzing ancient myths, with a section describing the difficulties of translating them: saturniancosmology.org/
