AUDIOBOOK

English as She is Wrote

Shawn Jones
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Duration
46m
Year
2019
Language
English

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This classic audiobook breaks down the humour that appears to be a result of dictionary-aided literal translation, which causes many idiomatic expressions to be translated wildly inappropriately. For example, the Portuguese phrase chover a cântaros is translated as raining in jars, whereas an idiomatic English translation would be raining buckets.

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