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  1. idioms - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Feb 16, 2019 · Why is Nazi-Germany commonly referred to as "The Third Reich " in English? Why is reich not translated when Dritten ("third") is? And what is the English synonym of reich? Realm? …

  2. word choice - "Translate into" vs. "Translate to" - English Language ...

    Dec 9, 2011 · Does one translate a word or phrase into another language or to another language? For example: Translate the following phrase to Spanish. Translate the following phrase into Spanish.

  3. English idiom for the Italian "ti voglio bene", used to express ...

    Feb 6, 2025 · the first one doesn't properly have the same use cases Could you provide some such differing use cases? That is, (1) examples where the Italian "ti voglio bene" is appropriate but the …

  4. quotation marks - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Oct 31, 2022 · How do you show a foreign term followed by its translation? Is the foreign term placed in quotation marks with its translation italicized or the other way around? Style guides favor but don't …

  5. Do most languages need more space than English?

    I saw the following statement on User Experience: Supporting multiple languages can break the user interface, because most languages need more space than english This seems to be a gross generali...

  6. How to translate the French noun 'problématique' into English?

    The (English and American) readers of the kinds of texts I translate (philosophical in a broad sense) are generally sufficiently sophisticated to know that this admittedly new use of the word has a special …

  7. word choice - "Translated in" vs. "translated to" - English Language ...

    Not sure where you get the Google figures from. I get 20k for "books translated in English", 56k for "books translated to English", and 127k for "books translated into English". You might also be …

  8. etymology - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Dec 27, 2022 · How did William Blackstone and John Winter Jones translate voir dire (a French phrase) to "speak the truth" when it literally translates as "to see say”? Etymonline claims it first appearance …

  9. What does “covfefe” exactly mean? - English Language & Usage Stack ...

    Jun 1, 2017 · Clearly, it isn’t an English word. Some tweets employing “covfefe” offer the option to translate it from Norwegian, though that appears to be a glitch of some sort. “Covfefe” does not …

  10. phrase requests - What is the English word closest to Japanese ...

    Apr 18, 2011 · What do you think English equivalent to the word, “Ganbatte” closest to the feeling of “Ganbatte” that can be expressed in a single word or very brief phrase?