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> and then even though I wrote the vows myself in Italian, just because I am American we had to have it translated by someone else back into English, by hand, j
by thaumasiotes 3y ago
> and then even though I wrote the vows myself in Italian, just because I am American we had to have it translated by someone else back into English, by hand, just so I understood the vows I had myself written.
Are you a native Italian speaker? If not, this makes perfect sense. It is routine for someone to attempt to say one thing in a foreign language while actually saying something completely different.
- hackeraccount 3y agoWhat the difference between a solution and an elegant solution. A solution will fix the problem even if that means creating another problem. An elegant solution fixes the problem without creating another problem. I can see how a non-native speaker might get themselves in trouble. I admit I have no idea what the correct solution is but I don't think this is it.
- thaumasiotes 3y agoHow could the solution be anything else? If the problem is "we want this person to understand this document", what are you going to do besides translating the document into the person's language?
- Aeolun 3y agoMarriage generally has a fixed definition by law, anything else would be madness. The vows shouldn’t matter.
- harperlee 3y agoNot italian and not a lawyer, but I can see how specific declarations made to another party in front of hundreds of witnesses, in the framework of entering a broader agreement with said party, could be argued as a verbal supplementary contract in case of future disputes!