Re: Translating titles for films

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 00:24:26 -0600 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:

>Interesting, because when I learned Spanish, that was one thing I
>remember my teacher telling us - that "duro" only means hard in the
>sense of "not soft".  I suppose maybe it's a dialectal thing, with
>some
>dialects allowing "difficult"?
Not at all, actually. "Duro" used in this other sense is quite standard.
There's a very common expression "trabajar duro" (to work hard), for
example; any Spanish-English dictionary should list it.

Teachers of foreign languages often gravely oversimplify in order to try
to keep students from making silly mistakes--such as in this case, where
"duro" wouldn't work as a translation for "difficult" in most cases. I
had a Spanish teacher once long ago who vehemently insisted that "ello"
wasn't a word (it is) because she was afraid people would start using it
to replace "'el."

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