A small notebook about translation, idioms and the odd ways words travel between languages.
"Magazine" is a shop in Russian, "actual" means current, and "sympathetic" is not the same as nice. A short list I keep updating.
Some phrases carry a whole culture inside them. A few thoughts on when to translate the image and when to translate the meaning.
Starting this page to keep my notes in one place.
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