The language of leadership is dominated by English. This episode reveals just what a flaw this is.
12 members of the expedition translate the definition of leadership we have adopted for the expedition into their mother tongues. Or rather they try to. Selvie Jusman admits her translation doesn’t really mean anything and falls back in love with her own #bahai. Uma Chatterjee reveals that none of us will ever really know her unless they speak #bengali. Isata Kabia just has fun in #creole. Hinemoa Elder introduces us to #personification in # Māori. Katya Guryeva avoids the problems of a gendered language in #russian. Maria Karageorgou reveals that catalyse (the first word in the #english definition) has two polar opposite means in its original #greek. Ana Luz Porzecanski gets back to scientific basics on catalysing with #spanish. Fatima Zibouh comes round to the word catalyse in #french. Rouba Mhaissen has adopted catalyse big time in #arabic. Anna Kuk has to decide whether to go for the faithful or the beautiful in #polish. And Erica Su makes an extraordinary and beautiful breakthrough in #chinese.
Those of you who think translation is simple, listen to this episode. It illustrates the opposite and the source of many misunderstandings.
English is so helpful as a common language but has huge limitations which many are blind to. This episode is an advanced class in #culturalintelligence #cq