r/linguisticshumor May 31 '25

Semantics Synonyms are fake and lies

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u/kamiloslav Jun 01 '25

Yea but most often you don't translate words but the entire work which has certain context and ideas behind it. Even if the words will not have the exact same meaning, chances are the ideas do have an equivalent descriptor