Lost and Found in Translation

By Paulo Moreira

This piece is part of a series by the Global Vision Initiative titled “Lost in Translation”. To read more, please head to our Medium account or to our website here.

As soon as we’re born, we feel the need for language. And soon enough we live inside language as naturally as a fish lives in the water. Our mother language feels like a natural habitat, but, as every other language, it is the creation of a community over time, a shared heritage, a place to be. We are molded by it and we mold it continuously, gradually, through generations…