Language headaches
Oct. 27th, 2009 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularTranslating from Greek to English: 1 to 3 aspirins, depending on whether the writer decided to get cute and break out archaisms.
Translating from English to Greek: 5 aspirins, because my brain is still not conditioned to think in Greek.
Translating from English to Greek when the original English was written by someone who obviously doesn't speak English worth a damn and ignores all the grammar rules:
Excedrin headache #357.
Translating from English to Greek: 5 aspirins, because my brain is still not conditioned to think in Greek.
Translating from English to Greek when the original English was written by someone who obviously doesn't speak English worth a damn and ignores all the grammar rules:
Excedrin headache #357.
