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שפה: English
david_uk (הצגת פרופיל) 16 בפברואר 2017, 15:47:34
This is something in "Step by step in esperanto", but I can only translate it as "We talk between four eyes", and that makes no sense at all.
nornen (הצגת פרופיל) 16 בפברואר 2017, 16:19:40
david_uk (הצגת פרופיל) 16 בפברואר 2017, 17:04:00
Can you explain why? Is that a common phrase in some other language?
I have never heard anyone say that in English.
david_uk (הצגת פרופיל) 16 בפברואר 2017, 17:37:48
http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/117356/is-t...
Apparently this is a German idiom. What it is doing in a book that is supposed to teach Esperanto to English speakers I have no idea.
opajpoaj (הצגת פרופיל) 16 בפברואר 2017, 21:18:06
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/entre_quatre-z-yeux
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http://bdl.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/bdl/gabarit_bdl.asp?id=...
bartlett22183 (הצגת פרופיל) 16 בפברואר 2017, 21:40:13
Roch (הצגת פרופיל) 16 בפברואר 2017, 22:13:32
![demando.gif](/images/smileys/demando.gif)
Gestandnis unter vier Augen (released in other English-speaking countries as "Confession Under Four Eyes"), the 1954 Andre Michel West German romantic crime melodrama starring Hildegard Knef, Carl Raddatz, Ivan Desny, Werner Hinz, Franz Schafheitlin, and Stanislav Ledinek
![externalImage.png](/assets/f5b04b4f/images/layout/externalImage.png)
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Oh I see through opajpoaj's link that it already existed by 1921
Vestitor (הצגת פרופיל) 16 בפברואר 2017, 22:20:04
I agree with Bartlett. Speaking in idioms (or inventing them) in Esperanto is a disaster waiting to happen. There is no way you can be sure that another person from a different culture will recognise an idiom's structure and meaning.
And let's face the fact, it's not as if the world is teeming with virtuoso Esperantists waiting to decipher them.
noelekim (הצגת פרופיל) 17 בפברואר 2017, 02:26:30
raydpratt (הצגת פרופיל) 19 בפברואר 2017, 17:01:49