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david_uk (Rodyti profilį) 2017 m. vasaris 16 d. 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 (Rodyti profilį) 2017 m. vasaris 16 d. 16:19:40
david_uk (Rodyti profilį) 2017 m. vasaris 16 d. 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 (Rodyti profilį) 2017 m. vasaris 16 d. 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 (Rodyti profilį) 2017 m. vasaris 16 d. 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 (Rodyti profilį) 2017 m. vasaris 16 d. 21:40:13
Roch (Rodyti profilį) 2017 m. vasaris 16 d. 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 (Rodyti profilį) 2017 m. vasaris 16 d. 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 (Rodyti profilį) 2017 m. vasaris 17 d. 02:26:30
raydpratt (Rodyti profilį) 2017 m. vasaris 19 d. 17:01:49