Two Sides Of The Canteen

Lo
3 min readOct 13, 2022

How to Translate South American Idioms as a Dumb American with a Chilean Friend

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One night about a year ago I sat in a café in Capitol Hill across from a Chilean friend as we attempted to translate an idiom. He joked as we continued to attempt a suitable English translation, “I’ve been through so many ‘failures’, but that’s never what they were.”

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