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Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5852 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
| Message 9 of 10 07 February 2010 at 7:44pm | IP Logged |
Astrophel wrote:
A pet peeve is a minor annoyance specific to you. In this example, most people in the world probably don't care about bad fonts, but this annoys the OP, so it's a pet peeve. |
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That's a short and precise definition, which makes it very clear to me. Thanks!
Fasulye
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6708 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 10 of 10 08 February 2010 at 9:44am | IP Logged |
I have made a number of parallel texts, and I normally use different colours to make the two languages stand out, - but different fonts are also OK as long as they are clearly legible. My own pet peeve in this question is very different: I don't like free translations - the two texts should be so similar that you immediately can identify which elements in one text corresponds to which elements in the other one, even if this means that the translation become less elegant and idiomatic. 'Literary' free translations are meant for people who don't want to learn a target laguage.
Edited by Iversen on 08 February 2010 at 9:45am
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