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Sentence #801485

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 sacredceltic sacredceltic March 22, 2011 March 22, 2011 at 4:51:05 PM UTC link Permalink

doesn't match the English.

sacredceltic sacredceltic March 22, 2011 March 22, 2011 at 5:43:33 PM UTC link Permalink

where is the night ?? As far as I know, you could say "ich konnte gut schlafen" in broad day light...

sacredceltic sacredceltic March 22, 2011 March 22, 2011 at 5:49:41 PM UTC link Permalink

>Sacredceltic only accepts literal translations and does not understand that different languages have different ways of saying the same things.

You're really being disingenuous, here, xtofu80...

A "night's sleep" is an instance of the class "sleep". But this doesn't work the other way...
Translating doesn't consist in generalising classes, otherwise we would end up with only one word...

sacredceltic sacredceltic March 22, 2011 March 22, 2011 at 6:03:32 PM UTC link Permalink

>Well, "night" is implied.

No it's not. "ich konnte gut schlafen" duriong the day, the morning, the evening, for 10 minutes, an hour, or the whole day.
Here, the English sentence provides 2 key pieces of information of time and duration that your translation is lacking:
1) it was at night
2) it lasted for an entire night, not just and hour.

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This sentence was initially added as a translation of sentence #62994I had a good night's sleep..

Ich konnte gut schlafen.

added by arcticmonkey, March 20, 2011
➜ #62994I had a good night's sleep.

linked by arcticmonkey, March 20, 2011
➜ #225658ぐっすり寝ました。

linked by xtofu80, March 22, 2011