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Subject:Re: "Type" vs. "Enter" (take III) From:TechComm Dood <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:25:18 -0400
I'll agree that you are correct if you can prove the literal
translation is correctly consistent. ;-)
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 09:09:25 -0400, Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> wrote:
> Not in Chinese or Japanese or (so far as I now) any non-Roman language
> I'm familiar with. But in any event, I fail to see how, if the meaning
> is the same in "nearly every language out there", the word poses
> translation problems. Isn't it a tautology that if the word translates
> the same way in all languages, it communicates clearly?
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