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What a failure. Try non-awkward translation, instead of awkward translation! "smack of the lips" thing is a failure of awkwardness, not a failure of translation
by sanxiyn 6y ago
What a failure. Try non-awkward translation, instead of awkward translation! "smack of the lips" thing is a failure of awkwardness, not a failure of translation.
In Korea "to click" is translated as "to press". Now, that wasn't difficult, was it?
- Tade0 6y agoI guess sharing (roughly) the same alphabet it was easier to adopt the English terms. Then again some words, like "sterownik"(can be understood as "someone who steers" - driver) remain in use to this day.
- yongjik 6y agoEh, Korea had its own share of awkward attempts. It's hard to predict which terms will be accepted. E.g., in early 90's, some people tried to use daramjwi (literally, "squirrel") for mouse. I'm not sure what they were thinking - a (computer) mouse doesn't look like a squirrel at all. The term didn't survive. Even worse offender was the Hercules graphics card, which was widely popular at that time. I think the same group of people tried to "translate" it into cheonha jangsa (something like "the strongest man on earth") - because, you know, Hercules the son of Zeus was known to be the strongest man on earth! (Never mind Hercules was a brand name here.)