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A translator at a party
Translators, unite! Who else finds themselves enthusiastically dropping fun language facts to an increasingly bewildered audience at social gatherings? We just can’t keep all that amazing information to ourselves, can we? The trick is finding someone who loves hearing them as much as we love sharing!
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Idioms in translation: It’s not always easy to make ends meet
making ends meet -- click on the image to enlarge
Translating idioms is one of the many challenges translators face on their work. According to the Collins Cobuild dictionary: “an idiom is a group of words which, when they are used together in a particular combination, have a different meaning from the one they would have if you look the meaning of all the individual words in the group”.
Translators should be aware of the meaning of idioms and avoid translating them literally.
Challenge: how would you translate this comic into your source language (provided it is not English, of course) and keep it funny?
Happy translating!
Romina
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