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grue is difficult to translate to German because a naive substitution would yield grau (grün/blau), but grau is grey. How would you translate grue to German?
by _nalply 8y ago
grue is difficult to translate to German because a naive substitution would yield grau (grün/blau), but grau is grey. How would you translate grue to German?
- theoh 8y agoBlün?
- thaumasiotes 8y ago...then how would you translate bleen?
- theoh 8y agoApparently you just avoid naming the other term (if my rudimentary scanning of this German webpage is correct): https://www.sapereaudepls.de/2018/01/20/goodman-paradoxon/ https://www.sapereaudepls.de/2018/01/20/goodman-paradoxon/ Blün is even in the Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blün https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blün
- bonoboTP 8y agoglau
- occamrazor 8y agoGrüu and blan?
- _nalply 8y agoThis doesn't work because au is a diphthong (a gliding vowel). In Bernese German you could pronounce üu, but not in Standard German.