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Most of my work has involved technical translation: printers and operating systems and applications, so focusing on the most direct "say what it is" kinds of sentences. And, fascinatingly, a lot of that is from the French, not the English OS.
But, that's not the space where people usually live, so what is sometimes the most accurate translation is sometime the least "dictionary compliant" phrase.
It's like being asked "paper or plastic" in the store: we all know what that means, even though it's not really a sentence.
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Most of my work has involved technical translation: printers and operating systems and applications, so focusing on the most direct "say what it is" kinds of sentences. And, fascinatingly, a lot of that is from the French, not the English OS.
But, that's not the space where people usually live, so what is sometimes the most accurate translation is sometime the least "dictionary compliant" phrase.
It's like being asked "paper or plastic" in the store: we all know what that means, even though it's not really a sentence.