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The road to love: Valentine’s idioms

Posted on 13 February 2015 by Kate Sotejeff-Wilson — Leave a comment

St Valentine was martyred in Rome about 1740 years ago today. What better way to honour him than with loving words in many languages? It’s been shown yet again, very entertainingly and by many translators, that idioms don’t translate easily,…

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