I like to explain our technologies. Even the idioms of our science appeal to me, wedding cakes, fish bones, bit rot. And usually, among other engineers, I'll encounter a shared interest, an appreciation at the least, for the decisions we've made, for the strategies we've studied and rejected,
But a lot of people don't know what a rolled-up newspaper is because that's a way of getting information that's just not useful anymore. How do we add idioms back so that there is a space of expectations rather than just tracking all the time. Right, like after skeuomorphism goes away, and you don't have any of these reference icon.
of looking at it. I'm thinking we have idioms like satiate one's curiosity. That depicts it as something that's like a very personal need that you need specifically to be filled.
I'm still finishing Proust. They did not have difficult words or idioms in them, but I felt that I would not be able to capture the unique voice of the speakers.
We use our phone for that. And so the set of idioms that you could refer to to guide people's expectations of what's going to happen are actually shrinking. Absolutely. We had this .
know those little words like "of," "to," "from," "around," "about," "above," "beyond," "below," "past," "by," "under," "over," those little words? We have a lot of idioms . For example we can be confused "by" something, we can be confused "over" something, I believe, I'm probably acceptable, but we can't be confused "to" something. Now that's not grammar. I mean the grammar's the same with those three examples.
And sometimes I worry that we've lost sense of feeling, especially the way the world is going now, the way people feel to talk to each other. This is clearly a guy who took African American music and African American idioms and basically cleaned it up.
In writing about a book that takes place in five different time periods, how do you ensure that you're faithful to the style of conversation and dialogue actually happens during my lifetime and during periods where I feel pretty confident of the idioms and so forth.
"It was so bad, it was probably done by Google Translate." In other words, literal translations of idioms . But I must say that the Spanish publishers manned up and agreed to destroy that edition, and withdraw it,
So this is a concept that sometimes gets referred to as the horizon, we refer to as the interval. In standard American English, we have all of these idioms like "eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die." But it feels that we're missing the idioms on the explore side
It actually coheres very, very well. You never know. Anyway, the place where actually the lexicon can reflect the culture is usually in places like idioms , or expressions,
He followed up with a series of pamphlets that were written not in Latin, but in German because German was far more easily understandable. And also, they were written in a very deliberately simple German that didn't use local dialects or idioms . So they could be understood throughout the German-speaking lands.
And I just was looking on their conference website at some of the sessions that are happening right now. So we have sessions going on right now that deal with German accounting standards, patent abstract translation in French, interpreting proverbs and idioms in Korean. Criminal Terminology in Brazil.