real English?

[Andrew Jameson]

Aren't you all forgetting the expression "at arm's length" which spatially
means something very close to "rukoi podat'"?

Andrew Jameson
Malvern WR14 3RQ
01684 572466


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Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 7:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] real English?

Wayles Browne wrote:

> David said 188 hits, but my Google search found only 6, of which 4 are 
> in fact the same instance (from Proz, a site devoted to discussing 
> translations). The instance represented by the 4 hits was written by 
> an English speaker who has lived, studied, and worked in Germany for a 
> long time. I'd say that the expression is not just rare, but so rare 
> that we shouldn't advise anyone to use it.

Agreed. I also got only six hits, plus two if I omitted the apostrophe.

But I did get 201 by omitting the preposition (vs. 1.36 million for "a
stone's throw").

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Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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