Donald Knuth celebrated his 80th birthday in Piteå

Post by eesmith » Sun, Jan 21, 2018, 3:17 PM UTC

evanb wrote: post #6

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Yes, it was understandable to this non-Swede. Here are phrases which stick out for me as not-quite-English (I'll ignore things where I thought the preposition was a bit odd, like "to his honor" instead of "in his honor".) "At physical education they said it would be really difficult." . That should be a physics education, not? And that preposition is weird. Perhaps "Regarding a physics education, they .." "yesterday…

"happen" has a verb sense meaning "to encounter by chance" when followed by "on" or "upon", so "happened" is grammatically and idiomatically correct. All the other ones are weird, though :)

Post by eesmith » Sun, Jan 21, 2018, 11:47 PM UTC

gliptic wrote: post #7

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Yes, it was understandable to this non-Swede. Here are phrases which stick out for me as not-quite-English (I'll ignore things where I thought the preposition was a bit odd, like "to his honor" instead of "in his honor".) "At physical education they said it would be really difficult." . That should be a physics education, not? And that preposition is weird. Perhaps "Regarding a physics education, they .." "yesterday…

"När du googlar" is literally "when you Google". Ironic, he could translate others but not himself ;). "Datavetare" would be more correctly translated as "computer scientist" and I'm surprised it doesn't do that. It's the literal translation, just like "naturvetare" means "natural scientist".