Idle musings by a once again bookseller, always bibliophile, current copyeditor and proofreader. Complete with ramblings about biblical studies, the ancient Near East, bicycling, gardening, or anything else I am reading (or experiencing). All more or less live from Red Wing, MN
Friday, January 02, 2015
Word-for-word
Languages show great variety in terms of the strings of words that they use; that is one of the reasons why word-by-word translation fails so miserably.—Analyzing Syntax, page 5
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