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Always the Same Map

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[–] sovietsnake@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, no one would say 'My fingers are broken' meaning their toes in Spanish, you would say 'The foot's fingers are broken" or 'I've hurt my foot' and then specify what's happened. They are different things alright, that's why one is a compound word and the other isn't.

I found a worse offence that English uses 'the day before yesterday' instead of a word, in Spanish we have 'antier' or 'anteayer'.

[–] The_Jewish_Cuban@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] sovietsnake@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I guess that is better but if you need to interpret it is not useful because it needs to be exact translations.