This is a headline from the French version of Slate:
La démocratie américaine a encore beaucoup à nous apprendre
Translated directly, it is
The democracy american has still a lot to us to teach.
Or as we would say
American democracy still has a lot to teach us.
Took me five minutes to translate that one bitty sentence.....
Don't be too literal. Just get is "jist" as they say.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, being literal is a downfall in translations. But I doubt anyone will ever mistake me for native-born French....
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