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Ghost Leg

Malay translation: ghost leg

10:22 Feb 17, 2017
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English term or phrase: Ghost Leg
Ghost Leg (Chinese: 畫鬼腳), known in Japan as Amidakuji (阿弥陀籤?, "Amida lottery", so named because the paper was folded into a fan shape resembling Amida's halo[1]) or in Korea as Sadaritagi (사다리타기, literally "ladder climbing"), is a method of lottery designed to create random pairings between two sets of any number of things, as long as the number of elements in each set is the same.
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Malay translation:ghost leg
Explanation:
Popular terminology like this is usually maintained as per source word. Purpose of language is communicating message, if reader fails to understand the message, language fails and translation is useless.
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Nor Afizah
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Local time: 23:17
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5 +3ghost leg
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ghost leg
ghost leg


Explanation:
Popular terminology like this is usually maintained as per source word. Purpose of language is communicating message, if reader fails to understand the message, language fails and translation is useless.


    Reference: http://fizatranslations.com/2017/02/english-malay-translatio...
Nor Afizah
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Local time: 23:17
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agree  yam2u
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agree  Wan Ahmad: yes, please retain and add in a glossary to explain the origin and culture behind the meaning
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agree  Haslina Abdul Hardy
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