ext_115458 ([identity profile] barsukthom.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sff_corgi_lj 2007-08-07 07:35 pm (UTC)

There SOOO needs to be a Crafter's Dictionary of Foreign Words And Phrases. "How often have you been humming nicely through a foreign language pattern and encountered the word 'Smeltzenlich'? You leap to your conventional dictionary, and discover that the word 'Smeltzenlich' either does not exist, or, even worse, means something completely inappropriate? With your handy new CDoFWAP, you can almost instantly learn that 'Smeltzenlich' is swiftly translated into a useful term!"
*My Example From Life is te Russian clothing word 'Port(bl)', which in the costuming reference means Trousers or Breeches, but which is translated in ALL the current russian-english dictionaries that I could find as Ports. or Harbors. or Doors. It could be an idiomatization of the fact that they had a front fly opening. I have no clue.

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