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What is difference between literal and idiomatic translation?

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literal translation - is the rendering of text from one language to another one word at a time with or without conveying the sense of the original whole


idiomatic translation - the ability to recognize and interpret idiom correctly and the difficulties involved in rendering the various aspects of meaning that an idiom or fixed expression conveys into the target language
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