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by yawpitch 467 days ago
What’s the Simplified Chinese for “never?”?
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Canned response: `There's probably no word in the $LANG_TARGET that shares etymological roots with $WORD_SOURCE in $LANG_SOURCE, so it'll have to be placed in a sentence, and then translated. Otherwise it will be garbage in garbage out. This applies to any words in any languages that aren't close siblings of one another and/or combinations of languages that has not enough traffic across.`
Uncanned response to canned response: the Simplified Chinese for “Never?” is “从不?”.
Never mind in a sentence. This whole comments thread is the context.