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Originally posted by Sir_Tainly:
Cheers Ramon, it's interesting to see how these idiomatic phrases translate, I can't remember it exactly but I there was one such phrase I discovered in Latin which litterally meant something like "what much", but translated to "to cut a long story short." A machine translator would never get somthing like that, its too tied into context.
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Yes, that the meaning of languages tends to be so context-related makes them so difficult(esp. for beginners) and fascinating at the same time. I have cursed that quite a few times already, because sometimes in a foreign language you just get the feeling you don't stand a chance at all, and you really don't by just studying grammar and vocabulary. But when I start to think of it, I really would not want it to be any other way.
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