[NTLK] Translations [OT] - was: Hi there, eMate 300 in Germany

[Lord Groundhog]

~~~ On 2010/02/27 09:31, Berthe M. Willumsen at bmw at bio.ku.dk wrote ~~~

> I'd say that translation is right on - I didn't mean to say the same in
> English.
> 
> I guess the structure of Danish is much closer to that of English than to
> German.
> Why it was so much harder with German in school.....
> 
> Impressive. 
> 
> Berthe


That solves that then.  Somehow -- I guess I was tired -- I imagined that
you wrote the English, then decided to add the Danish as an afterthought, to
illustrate.   So I was surprised not to see more precise equivalence.  But
if you weren't trying the give the literal translation, that explains it
all.  

Personally I've always been impressed with the language skills, including in
German, of Danes.  Puts the rest of us to shame.


 
Shalom. 
Christian 

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