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picowrimo2019-11-01 02:17 pm
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November 2019 - Day 1
Well, ladies, let's start this thing once again! Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!
May the magic be with us all!
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Of course, the more you say them, the more they all sound wrong!
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You should check your papers, perhaps you translated even more and forgot :) How long has it been since you started translating?
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I've started translating this particular story a little more than two years ago. It was originally finished in 1999, at a time when my English was practically nonexistent, so it was written partly in German, partly in Hungarian. Of course, it couldn't be published like that anywhere, but translating from two different languages into a third one is so tedious, that's why I have such long breaks in-between.
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This is an action (star fleet officers are "used to having") that's always been going on and will continue to go on.
I recognized your mistake but I'm finding it very difficult to explain it to you, sorry.
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I'm Hungarian, and our language has exactly three tenses: past, present and future. Everything else is context. It works like a charm. I grew up with German as my second language, starting at the age of 3, and I can handle German tenses without problems. They are logical. Hell, I could even follow French tenses in the half year I was learning French for the heck of it. No problem. English tenses, though...
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There are a lot of native English speakers here in America who never master all the tenses either and they get by without them--more or less.
America's schools have really gone to seed in the past quarter of a century thanks to their trying to make school easy enough that everyone can pass and get a high school diploma.
:^\