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it was the perfect word choice to illustrate translation difficulty
by MarkPNeyer 12y ago
it was the perfect word choice to illustrate translation difficulty
- Florin_Andrei 12y agoTrue, but "really perfectible" sounds strange.
- sfeng 12y agoThat's his point
- reacweb 12y agoIt sounds strange in english. Saying "c'est perfectible" in french is correct and usual. It is translated by google translate into "This is perfectible". As usual, google translate is very poor.
- magicalist 12y agoThe irony being the poster above used that exact translation themselves? Translation is difficult, and at least in this case the translation is an accurate one (albeit one many english speakers would need to look up in a dictionary).
- Florin_Andrei 12y agoFunny thing is, English is not my first language. I guess it sounds a bit weird even in my mother tongue.
- beobab 12y agoI've laboured under the misapprehension that it was spelt "perfectable" for my entire life.