▲ 231 ▼ What's an interesting etymology for a common term? (feddit.uk) submitted 3 months ago by Iconoclast@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 213 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 child) That’s bizarre ….. during the independence violence the news always refers to it as East Timor, so it would have been more literally east east permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) How is one language more literal than another? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago Think of the language like units in a math problem. “East” (English) is more literally “East” Than “Leste”( Portuguese), even if it translates to the same If you make an analogy with temperature: 212°F is more literally “212” than 100C even if they are both the boiling point of water permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wieson@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 child) How is one language more literal than another? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago Think of the language like units in a math problem. “East” (English) is more literally “East” Than “Leste”( Portuguese), even if it translates to the same If you make an analogy with temperature: 212°F is more literally “212” than 100C even if they are both the boiling point of water permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago Think of the language like units in a math problem. “East” (English) is more literally “East” Than “Leste”( Portuguese), even if it translates to the same If you make an analogy with temperature: 212°F is more literally “212” than 100C even if they are both the boiling point of water permalink fedilink source parent