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"This wenche thikke" - Geoffrey Chaucer, the Father of English literature(lemmy.world)

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teft@lemmy.world
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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.

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Ah, cool. :) I knew there was a proper word for it but I didn’t know what that word was.

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