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You can get in trouble even if you know those nuances, because an idiom
has semantics based on factors beyond vocabulary. Understanding the
individual words perfectly doesn't help.
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I remember from college of a translator program that covered multiple
languages. The phrase "Out of sight, out of mind" was fed in, in
English. After translation to a number of other languages and finally
back to English, it came back "Invisible, insane."
My point: idioms and other common phrases can often be the hardest to
translate to another language, even if you think you know all the
possible constructs. Simply translating words isn't enough!
Rick
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