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  2. Homophonic translation - Wikipedia

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    Homophonic translation renders a text in one language into a near-homophonic text in another language, usually with no attempt to preserve the original meaning of the text. For example, the English "sat on a wall" / ˌ s æ t ɒ n ə ˈ w ɔː l / is rendered as French "s'étonne aux Halles" [setɔn o al] (literally "gets surprised at the Paris ...

  3. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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    In French, it means "beginning." The English meaning of the word exists only when in the plural form: [faire] ses débuts [sur scène] (to make one's débuts on the stage). The English meaning and usage also extends to sports to denote a player who is making their first appearance for a team or at an event. décolletage a low-cut neckline ...

  4. Sentence spacing - Wikipedia

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    Sentence spacing concerns how spaces are inserted between sentences in typeset text and is a matter of typographical convention. [1] Since the introduction of movable-type printing in Europe, various sentence spacing conventions have been used in languages with a Latin alphabet . [ 2 ]

  5. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    The meanings of these words do not always correspond to Germanic cognates, and occasionally the specific meaning in the list is unique to English. Those Germanic words listed below with a Frankish source mostly came into English through Anglo-Norman, and so despite ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic, came to English through a Romance ...

  6. Linguee - Wikipedia

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    The paired sentences identified undergo automatic quality evaluation by a human-trained machine learning algorithm that estimates the quality of translation. The user can set the number of pairs using a fuzzy search , access, and the ranking of search results with the previous quality assurance and compliance is influenced by the search term.

  7. Sentence spacing in language and style guides - Wikipedia

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    Although the 1992 edition does not provide guidance on sentence spacing, its text is single sentence spaced throughout—consistent with historical French spacing. The German language manual Empfehlungen des Rats für deutsche Rechtschreibung , or "Recommendations of the Council for German Orthography" (2006), does not address sentence spacing ...

  8. Huh? What Does 'IB' Mean on Social Media? - AOL

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    Plus, similar phrases to get the exact same message across.

  9. French orthography - Wikipedia

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    French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.