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Hey, it's not that easy to chose between "водяной баран" and "гидравлический таран", you know. My favourite example of troubled blind translation is still "nak

Hey, it's not that easy to chose between "водяной баран" and "гидравлический таран", you know. My favourite example of troubled blind translation is still "naked conductor runs under the carriage".

fc417fc802 2mo ago
Nice double entendre but it seems to be a perfectly valid description of electrical wiring in a machine? What was the original intent?
- Joker_vD 2mo ago
  It is a perfectly valid description of electrical wiring... but you need to have that context to translate it properly. Technical English translation skills vs. literary English translation skills, if you will.
JustARandomGuy 2mo ago
What was "naked conductor runs under the carriage" supposed to be originally? Open driveshaft? Differential?
- Joker_vD 2mo ago
  It's supposed to mean "a naked wire is stretched under the car". But it very well can be interpreted as, well, as a cloth-less train conductor having to quickly move under the carriage.
- lostlogin 2mo ago
  It’ll be a reference to a wire surely? Bare conductor?