Sentence:  "Although it's hard for us to imagine, they see the pixels in a raw, uninterpreted fashion, and thus to them a TV screen is as drained of long-ago-and-far-away meaning as is, to you or me, a pile of fall leaves, a Jackson Pollock painting, or a newspaper article in Malagasy (my apologies to you if you speak Malagasy; in that case, please replace it by <WSD>Icelandic</WSD> — and don't tell me that you speak that language, too!)." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A North Germanic language, the national tongue of Iceland.