In Japanese, NtoV is divided into four. The noun-like adjectives require the copula, do not have any of the verbal forms, and when standing alone behave just as nouns do. Chinese does not have tense in verbs, number in nouns, and so forth. The semantic space we each carry around has been defined by our language and our experience. None of this is to say that some thoughts are not expressible in one language or another.
Language is, that is to say, all languages are, wondrously fuzzy.
That is what good writing, poetry, and even creativity are all about. I would go so far as to say that that is what human intelligence is all about. As stated earlier, in a sense, all language use is metaphorical and poetic. Because each language, dialect, and individual has a distinct way of thinking, a distinct way of pushing boundaries, a distinct sense of metaphor, and because these are constantly in a state of change, it is necessarily, essentially, and ultimately impossible to prescribe language usage. Again, it is as absurd as prescriptive meteorology.