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Lexical Gaps
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'Gaps' are used to refer to words or
usages that arent currently used in English,
such as
the word 'pep' however USA used this
word in the 20th century for
an abbreviation
upon 'pepper'
Language is said to be untranslatable, as every language has words that cant be translated into our own language
In Russian there is no word to translate for 'shallow' so instead
you have to say 'not so deep'
English has no plural for the
word 'you'
When there is no word in the language you are speaking, for the concept you are looking for.
Different dialects need words that other languages don't need
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when no word or phrase exists its
called a lexical gap
however its hard to explain lexical gaps as there is no one language that is standard, to compare lexical gaps with.