OlenaWed, Oct 14, 2009 That's ok, "extremism at all" isn't really a correct expression by itself (not to put you off, just to help), in my question "at all" I mean... overall. That is, maybe you were not even suggesting extremism - maybe your title was a question: "We must be extremists?" As opposed to "extremism overall" which here, as you said applies to extremism in general, as opposed to some political type.
But I understand now. I agree with you, it's very difficult to translate anything - this was one of the topics discussed in the comments under Wildcat's post:
Other languages are much more expressive - even if just culturally, in slang. They truly make use of strange metaphors, but the people understand - they are more creative. In English we just shorten everything!
That's ok, "extremism at all" isn't really a correct expression by itself (not to put you off, just to help), in my question "at all" I mean... overall. That is, maybe you were not even suggesting extremism - maybe your title was a question: "We must be extremists?" As opposed to "extremism overall" which here, as you said applies to extremism in general, as opposed to some political type.
But I understand now. I agree with you, it's very difficult to translate anything - this was one of the topics discussed in the comments under Wildcat's post:
Other languages are much more expressive - even if just culturally, in slang. They truly make use of strange metaphors, but the people understand - they are more creative. In English we just shorten everything!