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I just tried a quick translation now looking up the latin dictionary. My native tongue is Portuguese so maybe I'm more used to uncommonly ordered sentences. My
by hcarvalhoalves 7y ago
I just tried a quick translation now looking up the latin dictionary. My native tongue is Portuguese so maybe I'm more used to uncommonly ordered sentences.
My English vocabulary is limited, I had to lookup a better synonym for "long":
Daedalus, meanwhile, on Crete's lingering detested
exile, longing for his birthplace
- josinalvo 7y agolingering brings other ideas besides "long". something like "fading but still there". does not seem appropriate for the text
- hcarvalhoalves 7y agoDoesn't "lingering" have a connotation of "lasting longer than it should" when associated with a negative aspect? E.g. "lingering pain", "lingering stench".
- josinalvo 7y agoAlso lingering affection. Afaik, it means mostly something like "still there, after all that time" see: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lingering https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lingering
- Koshkin 7y agoHow's Portuguese any different in that regard from other Romance languages like Spanish or French?
- umanwizard 7y agoI’m not familiar with Portuguese, but for what it’s worth, Spanish has much freer word order than French. Random example: “I can’t do it” in Spanish can either be no lo puedo hacer or no puedo hacerlo. In colloquial French, j’peux pas l’faire is the only option (or, if you prefer the more standard/formal register: je ne peux pas le faire). This despite “le” and “lo” being direct cognates.