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ein0p
742 days ago
You can’t translate word by word. You need entire phrases, sometimes pretty long ones, to understand the meaning.
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woleium
742 days ago
sometimes, but in a constrained situation, e.g. at a hotel reception desk, maybe not.
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nmstoker
742 days ago
So what would you do if translating from a language that puts the main verb at the end of a sentence, into a language that doesn't...
Feels like there will be plenty of cases you can't just get around.
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ein0p
742 days ago
Not to mention that sometimes you need more than one sentence to get the full meaning
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