[Corpora-List] Constitution
Ken Litkowski
ken at clres.com
Mon May 16 14:39:48 UTC 2005
One of the lessons learnt is
TadPiotr wrote:
> Let me even generalize it a bit: the real problem in translation is with
> collocations, to which compounds belong. Dictionaries -- and databases -- of
> technical terms focus on lexicalized items, but not on the gray area of
> collocations. There are very few dictionaries of technical collocations. And
> that is one of the reasons why translations of technical texts are so
> "unnatural".
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