A comparison of the expressions of different languages has found that:
A. all languages are direct translations of each other and use the same terms to describe the same things.
B. every language is completely unique in its descriptions and there are many terms that simply cannot be translated from language to language
C. different languages use different terms to describe the same thing, but one can usually see why a language chooses the terms that it does.
D. the English language is the only one that accurately describes the world.
C
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