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One of my favorite wikipedia articles is “Cross-Linguistic Onomatopoeias”[1] because it’s fun to look at the similarities and differences. An article of cross-l
by elliekelly 5y ago
One of my favorite wikipedia articles is “Cross-Linguistic Onomatopoeias”[1] because it’s fun to look at the similarities and differences. An article of cross-linguistic idioms would be even more interesting! But probably much more difficult to compile.
[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoei...
- CGamesPlay 5y agoCross-linguistic idioms would be interesting to see. I suspect it has a lot more to do with the etymology of the idioms than anything else. For example, I know that the idiom "I'm a big boy" (meaning "I am capable") works in English and Russian, but in Turkish it comes out sounding more like "I'm a large child". Actually, I found lots of idioms are identical in English/Russian (there are some unique ones to each language), and I suspect it comes from a shared European ancestry.