Translation - Danish-English - Det kan være farligt at arbejde med højspænding.Current status Translation
Category Sentence - Humor | Det kan være farligt at arbejde med højspænding. | | Source language: Danish
Det kan være farligt at arbejde med højspænding. |
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| Working with high voltage can be dangerous. | TranslationEnglish Translated by pias | Target language: English
Working with high voltage can be dangerous. |
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Last messages | | | | | 23 May 2009 20:03 | | | Hi Pia, this would sound better in English with an inverted structure:
"Working with high voltage can be dangerous."
What do you think? | | | 23 May 2009 20:14 | | piasNumber of messages: 8114 | Ok | | | 23 May 2009 20:52 | | piasNumber of messages: 8114 | Btw, why is it wrong to translate it as I did
It can be dangerous to work with high voltage. | | | 23 May 2009 20:56 | | | Did I say it was wrong?
I said it would sound better, a more natural way to say that in English. | | | 23 May 2009 21:10 | | piasNumber of messages: 8114 | No, you didn't! But since you don't accepted it as it was, I thought so. I guess (?) a sentence like this can be said in different ways (word order), but still mean the same and be correct...I thought that maybe was the case here. | | | 23 May 2009 21:50 | | | And it IS the case here.
Besides your sentence and mine, we could make some other sentences with different wording and still meaning the same thing.
What about:
"High voltage can be dangerous to work with"
And...I didn't say I wouldn't accept your version. If so, I would have posted:
It can be dangerous to work with high voltage. ---> Working with high voltage can be dangerous. | | | 23 May 2009 21:58 | | piasNumber of messages: 8114 | Wow ..I'm getting on your nerves Lilian!!
I understand your way of work, and it's true, you did asked me if I agreed. | | | 23 May 2009 23:03 | | | |
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