I just read this phrase and laughed aloud:Conversation in English is often full of phrases not to be taken literally. It’s the word ‘often’ that got me chuckling. I’d have been more sober if ‘always’ had been the adverb. Conversation in English isalwaysfull of phrases not to be ...
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[t]here is a moment in the first chapter of George Sand’sLa Mare au Diable[The Devil’s Pool] when the masculine form of an adjective provides the sign that the narrator is male; in the English translation no such signal would be manifest. Conversely, translators of George Eliot’sAdam ...
PEMDAS helped me understand appositive phrases, and the catalysts for revolutions resembled chemical isotopes, nominally different with the same properties. As I grew older, my interests expanded to include the delicate systems of biology, the complexity of animation, and the nuances of language. ...
The translations of cây in the squared brackets are redundant in non-classifier languages (e.g., English) but in Vietnamese supply mandatory superordinate category information (the phrases were controlled for correctness by native speaker and linguist Jenny Tran, cf. Tran, 2011): (1) một...
Paine's new style of political writing avoided using complex Latin phrases, instead opting for a more direct, concise style that helped make the information accessible to all. Thusly, Paine's "incendiary" words were heard even by those common folk who had never learned to read. The second ...
For instance, while “rural” and “revitalization” are separate terms, “rural revitalization” refers specifically to one of China’s strategies to promote common prosperity. Additionally, certain inseparable phrases that carry special meanings are derived from official Chinese documents, such as the...