English from Italian gives us “Our hotel faces the coast”.
I would be a lot happier if the translation gave our English learners “Our hotel is by the sea” but as always, I’m happy to be corrected.
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Actually, on Tatoeba, the English translation of the sentence does seem to be the odd one out (when compared to languages that I can at least remotely comprehend, with all of them going for something along the lines of “borders on/is adjacent to/is located on/is right by the (sea) coast”.
I’m also not quite sure how to interpret the logs on the side, but also noticed the following:
Our hotel faces the coast.
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So perhaps the original translator deleted their account, or the sentence translation was somehow sourced in a different manner, but I guess we thus can’t verify their native languages and such.
I would say both the Italian and the English sentences are valid, but the connection is dubious.
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Ciao ragazzi. When I read “faces the coast” I feel my hotel would have to be out at sea or across the channel in order to “face the coast” ie the shoreline, cliffs, coastline.
Still, I get the gist (il succo) so no problema.
A più tardi…
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