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Re:Lost in Translation: Writing treaties in two languages ca... by Svip on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:29AM (#21014398)
With context it is clear. But the way the author takes « des territoires » out of context, makes it look like it's the indefinite article. They should have translated it to 'of the territories'.
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Re:Lost in Translation: Writing treaties in two languages ca... by IfOnlyYouKnew on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:05AM (#21014542)
Why not just concede that you were wrong? Even if, yes, the author could have made it a bit more difficult for you to be wrong?
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Re:Lost in Translation: Writing treaties in two languages ca... by microtherion on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:56AM (#21015063)
He's not really wrong. As a French speaker myself, seeing "from 'des territoires'" and a translation as a definite article was jarring, since the definite form of the article already contains the "from", so preceding the quote with the "from" strengthens the intuitive parse as an indefinite article.
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