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The interview looks translated from Spanish to English, as the prosody looks closer to Romance languages. Altough who knows, as we Europeans prefer to use lots
by anthk 2y ago
The interview looks translated from Spanish to English, as the prosody looks closer to Romance languages. Altough who knows, as we Europeans prefer to use lots of Latin/Greek/French derived English words because of convenience, as most educated speakers in Academia will know the meaning. As Europe it's a hub on Romances/English on scientific environments, native English speakers might get these 'oddities' back.
But, as a con, we might get more difficulties on Germanic words which are pretty much a piece of cake for any English speaker as they are used to them far more than to "technical" Romance words.
Paradoxically we might get along better on highly educated English native speakers than having a random chat with the average guy using mundane words. In my case I have to do huge efforts in order to 'simplify' my English.
- parodysbird 2y agoThe author is the science writer for El Pais and many of his articles come out in both English and Spanish (no translator credited? Maybe that's normal, or maybe he writes them in both languages at once). So I would expect him to write with a very Romance prosody in English. This article is not in the Spanish edition (yet) from what I can tell, probably because the interview is in English, so you would need a full professional translation rather than an author translation.