Showing posts with label Idioms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Idioms. Show all posts

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Idioms. They Don't Translate

Hallo.  As you may or may not know, I have spent the last two and a half weeks in Germany, and tomorrow we're going to Norway for a week.  Yup.  Being bilingual, I like to notice differences in sentence structure or specific words between English and German.  That didn't seem so nerdy in my head.  But anyways, I have realized that idioms.  Do.  Not.  Translate.  Like, if a foreigner came to good ole Murica, they would be genuinely perplexed if you said you had a cup of Joe for breakfast.

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