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Sat Jun-04-05 07:11 PM
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Poll question: Language students and multilinguists: most untranslatable? |
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Sat Jun-04-05 07:42 PM
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1. As a fan of language, I'd love to hear some explanations or examples. |
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I would expect curses to be easily translatable. Not so?
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Sat Jun-04-05 07:44 PM
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2. As an ESL tutor and a language student |
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I'd have to go with cultural idioms, by far.
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Sat Jun-04-05 08:15 PM
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because they tend to rely on a word/homophone that can have two different definitions in one language, but not the other.
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