PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-210 months ago"This wenche thikke" - Geoffrey Chaucer, the Father of English literaturelemmy.worldimagemessage-square22linkfedilinkarrow-up1665arrow-down16
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minus-squareteft@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·10 months agoIdiomatic translation is the second type. It’s what you end up doing when you learn a second language well enough to stop translating word for word.
minus-squarericecake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·10 months agoAh, cool. :) I knew there was a proper word for it but I didn’t know what that word was.
Idiomatic translation is the second type. It’s what you end up doing when you learn a second language well enough to stop translating word for word.
Ah, cool. :) I knew there was a proper word for it but I didn’t know what that word was.