Translation exercise

10 Maio 2017, 14:00 • David Alan Prescott

Analysis of possible manners of translating informal yet difficult issues such as "you" to a Portuguese equivalent. Difficulties in gender (and meaning) ambiguity in English in translations such as "my partner and I". Ways to avoid problems. Issue of the need to be or wisdom of being as informal in Portuguese as in the English equivalent, given that there is a socially more formal system of addressing people in Portuguese in Portugal and a slightly different but equally less formal system in Brazilian Portuguese.