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Think about how often idiomatic phrases come up in English. Then try to translate those phrases into, say, Chinese. And vice versa. Good luck with that. "Steel
by SlyShy 17y ago
Think about how often idiomatic phrases come up in English. Then try to translate those phrases into, say, Chinese. And vice versa. Good luck with that.
"Steel rice bowl" makes no sense in English, and "apple of your eye" makes no sense in Chinese.
- mfalcon 17y agoThey say we could have a table with a series of idiomatic phrases. Every sentence has to be compared with that table in order to know if its an idiomatic phrase or not. I think that's not a good idea.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoThat's really, really not a good idea. You need to get them to talk to someone who knows for real how hard this problem is.