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Re:Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth by Broken_Hippo on Saturday November 05, 2022 @08:05AM (#33480669)
Maybe, but I'll give some slack here. Translations aren't perfect and maybe it read better before translation.
Re:Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth by tete on Saturday November 05, 2022 @08:11AM (#33480701)
Why? It's just the closest detected one.
Re:Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth by Broken_Hippo on Saturday November 05, 2022 @08:34AM (#33480814)
Ok. So?

The issue here is that I don't read spanish. I used a translator - google, actually. And I know painfully well that sometimes translations are clunky even when they are generally good. I don't have a lot of experience between Spanish and English, but I do with Norwegian-English, and those are both germanic languages and often translate decently.

But not always. Some things are just messed up. Some things don't translate word-for-word simply because folks express things differently.

So yeah, it might be weird in English. Might not be in Spanish, though.

Re:Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth by narag on Saturday November 05, 2022 @12:15PM (#33482856)
It's the same in the Spanish version.
Re:Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth by Broken_Hippo on Sunday November 06, 2022 @04:28AM (#33490733)
Is it a more normal way to speak in spanish?

Here, an example in Timekeeping:

English and Norwegian speak about time differently. Direct translations from Norwegian to English - the sort you get with translate - will make it seem very, very weird. "Ti over halv ni" directly translates to "Ten over half nine": If you take the user suggestion, it says "Ten over eight thirty". In other words, 8:40 or twenty til nine.

While these are both technically correct, it still is a clunky way to talk about time when you are using English.

"The same in spanish" doesn't mean that it is the right expression in both languages.