Date: 2016-03-07 07:50 pm (UTC)
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Happy fun extra stuff I've discovered the hard way (being monolingual):

* In Japanese, second person narrative is received as very rude/obnoxious/hectoring.

* German has real problems with some English conditional tense constructions: as you will have realized, English has got this tinker-toy toolkit for constructing tenses that simply don't exist in German.

* Gender issues (of course) -- many languages lack a neuter/gender-indeterminate

There are probably other gotchas; is it possible to write a story in English that is a universal pain in the ass to translate? ;-)
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