Hey, that's today's smbc https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/r
The problem is, there's no good reason to think the concept of 彊 in your mind is at all similar to the concept of 彊 in my brain. After all, we (probably) don't pronounce it the same, right?
Not exactly, it doesn't look like the definition or even connotations of "ineffable" include "unknown".
It does in the sense that ineffable things are unable to be described in language (conceptually: unknown to language).
Anything that is known can be described in language by giving it a name.
Hey, that's today's smbc https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/r The problem is, there's no good reason to think the concept of 彊 in your mind is at all similar to the concept of 彊 in my brain. After all, we (probably) don't pronounce it the same, right?
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> Anything that is known can be described in language by giving it a name.
And yet we have the phrase "It has a a certain je ne sais quoi."
* https://lingoculture.com/blog/culture/je-ne-sais-quoi/
You can recognize/know that something is special, but cannot quite put your finger on why.
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