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"This wenche thikke" - Geoffrey Chaucer, the Father of English literature (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] teft 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Idiomatic translation is the second type. It's what you end up doing when you learn a second language well enough to stop translating word for word.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Ah, cool. :) I knew there was a proper word for it but I didn't know what that word was.