conundrum

[Anne Schumann]

Well, I think there should be more than just one solution, especially for such a BASIC translation problem. I usually translate from Russian to German, but I don't see what speaks against phrasing the sentence as "an x as well as a y factory" (in German: sowohl eine X-  als auch eine Y-Fabrik). The Russian sentence surely does not suffer from the repetitiveness of the proposed English "an x factory and a y factory" and there is no necessity to create repetitiveness, since we have all the wealth of language at our disposal to avoid it.

Regards,

Anne-Kathrin Schumann
Vienna/Leipzig

-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Liv Bliss
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 6:59 PM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] conundrum

Sarah Hurst wrote: I think it just has to be "They built a confectionery factory and a pasta factory." That seems to be the only way to clarify that there was one of each.

I vote for Sarah's solution.

Best to the list
Liv

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