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We still use the same image in English when we ask a lawyer to turn the small print on a contract into something comprehensible, or when a teacher asks a student to turn a sentence into German. Tanimtok , the word for “translation” in Tok Pisin, the lingua franca of Papua New Guinea, is also made of the same elements, “turn” ( tanim ) and “talk” ( tok ). [14] Of course, “turning” is almost as slippery as “carrying across,” but because you can also turn milk into butter, a...