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Language: English
3le1zer8 (User's profile) June 16, 2023, 6:21:54 PM
As the title says, I'm wondering how to translate the phrase "to the effect that" (e.g., "he's made a comment to the effect that the information in the book isn't accurate") into Esperanto. Would a literal translation ("al la efiko ke") work?
Thanks in advance for your time.
Frano (User's profile) June 17, 2023, 6:07:44 AM
ke, simpledirante /por diri simple/, ...
ke, ĝenerale, ...
ke, esence, ...
Altebrilas (User's profile) June 17, 2023, 1:07:03 PM
Frano (User's profile) June 17, 2023, 1:51:52 PM
amigueo (User's profile) June 17, 2023, 2:48:23 PM
" Komento samefikal insulto.
" Komento samefikke sxi bedauxras renkonti nin.
Altebrilas (User's profile) June 17, 2023, 10:50:48 PM
En la franca : en gros (proksimume) , en substance (esence, resume)
3le1zer8 (User's profile) June 18, 2023, 1:32:53 AM
Metsis (User's profile) June 19, 2023, 10:14:22 AM
Generally speaking this
3le1zer8:is usually a bad idea. In order to be comprehensible globally words in Esperanto tend be quite concrete, so you should ask yourself what "effect" means in the original sentence. Has it the meaning of "a change that somebody/something causes in somebody/something else; a result" (from Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary)? Obviously not, so "to the effect that…" is an English idiom with some other meaning (English is (in)famous to have a lot of such idioms). Decipher that and you get the message, idea of the sentence, which you need because you should translate ideas, not words.
Would a literal translation ("al la efiko ke") work?