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Complications don't start at phrases. Being intimately familiar with a couple languages, I find it a bit frustrating how often single words can't be translated
by jolmg 5y ago
Complications don't start at phrases.
Being intimately familiar with a couple languages, I find it a bit frustrating how often single words can't be translated perfectly because of small differences in meaning. Google Translate also often gets confused with false friends.
- porknubbins 5y agoYes and crossing language families often results in words your native language thinks of as atomic being divided into multiple more specific concepts (or vice versa). For example Japanese has no word for foot- they just say leg and use context to infer what part is meant. On the other hand they have 3 words for specific parts of the back/hip area we would usually just call back or lower back in English. This kind of thing causes no end of confusion.