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Thread poster: Charnette Bank
Charnette Bank
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Sweden
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English to Swedish
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Mar 4, 2016

Hi

I'm doing proofreading work of machine translated phrases; English to Swedish. The phrase "social butterfly" is translated to "social fjäril", and while this is correct, for me it sounds weird. Do we really use this expression in Sweden? Jag använder aldrig detta uttryck, men vill erkänna att jag inte kan samtliga slanguttryck i alla delar av landet.

Anyone got a tip how to translate "social butterfly" to Swedish? I've thought of "socitetslejon" but that symbolis... See more
Hi

I'm doing proofreading work of machine translated phrases; English to Swedish. The phrase "social butterfly" is translated to "social fjäril", and while this is correct, for me it sounds weird. Do we really use this expression in Sweden? Jag använder aldrig detta uttryck, men vill erkänna att jag inte kan samtliga slanguttryck i alla delar av landet.

Anyone got a tip how to translate "social butterfly" to Swedish? I've thought of "socitetslejon" but that symbolises a complete different person, right?

Thanks in advance. ▲ Collapse
 
Agneta Pallinder
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Make this a KudoZ query Mar 4, 2016

I think you would get more responses if you made this into a KudoZ query.
 
Charnette Bank
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Local time: 13:05
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Thanks Mar 4, 2016

Thank you, I followed your advice. Not too used to asking questions here...
 


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