Dialogue ID: JT2

Corpus: British National Corpus

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WMN sequences (4):

WMN ID: JT2_30

Context: Spoken interaction

WMN Type: SIMN

WMN Meaning: no WMN

Trigger words: Literal

Indicator sentences: What , well , well you define for me , what 's a literal translation ?

Negotiation parts: Word for word . Word for word . Yes .

WMN ID: JT2_32

Context: Spoken interaction

WMN Type: SIMN

WMN Meaning: no WMN

Trigger words: idiomatic translation

Indicator sentences: What does idiomatic mean ?

Negotiation parts: Making sense [UNCLEAR]Ideally [UNCLEAR]Making sense in sentence [UNCLEAR][UNCLEAR]Idiomatic means more than just making sense in English Correct word order .[UNCLEAR] grammatic use ofMm , grammatic [UNCLEAR] yes . It also means using the kinds of erm , vocabulary and phraseology which are normally used . It in in in every day usage . Right so , a literal translation might turn out to be very stiff and stilted , and not the way most people would use language . So , the there there is a distinction in terms there , you 've got to do a literal translation first . Because if you do n't , if do n't do a word by word translation , as some of you did , you , you may miss the meaning of certain words , and that might totally alter your perception of what 's being said , and then what you should , wh when you 've done a literal translation , you will have a very stiff erm , u unusual version of it , written in modern English vocabulary but you 'll find that word ordering and things like that wo n't be appropriate , and sometimes the vocabulary are n't the kind of words that would normally be used now . Therefore you will need to to rewrite that in a way which mean something to modern erm , readers .

WMN ID: JT2_58

Context: Spoken interaction

WMN Type: WMN: non-understanding

WMN Meaning: potential meaning

Trigger words: Beareth

Indicator sentences: what does beareth mean ? Who knows that to bear means ?

Negotiation parts: Shows .Mm .Shows .No , that 's that 's bare as in B A R E I suppose . [UNCLEAR] exhibitionism .[UNCLEAR]Oh , it has .No , it has n't .Holds [UNCLEAR]Mm , yeah al almost holds so it 's obviously a word which has now become erm , obsolete for you people . To bear something , means to to carry it .

WMN ID: JT2_77

Context: Spoken interaction

WMN Type: WMN: non-understanding

WMN Meaning: potential meaning

Trigger words: savour

Indicator sentences: What 's savour refer to ? If something 's savoury , what sense are you , are you using it .

Negotiation parts: To [UNCLEAR] taste . Taste , yeah . Savour literally means taste . Biscuits are savoury . So are crisps . Indeed , yes . So it literally means taste in this case .