Recently I came across the question of translating the word “unlock” into another language. In Vietnamese the word would be translated “mo khoa” or “open lock”. This got me thinking why they didn’t just use the word “lock” with another word that means to undo, the same function as “un-” in English.
When I thought about […]
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