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Re: RE: Help with translation

Lieven L. Litaer (Quvar) ([email protected])

• From: Lieven L. Litaer (Quvar) <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: RE: Help with translation
• Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 14:46:10 +0100
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Am 16.02.2004 18:00:51, schrieb Steven Boozer <[email protected]>:

>>I'm trying to come up with a word for "company", as in: "I work for a
>>company that makes X."

"I work for" sounds like "I serve someone"

  {X chenmoHwI' vItoy'}
  "I serve an X-maker"

Voragh:
>As has been mentioned, {malja'} "business" is the closest we have but our 
>sole example refers to the activity, not a place:

Doesn't he want to describe an activity?

  {X malja' vIHuq}
  "I transact X-business"

It's not better, just a suggestion...

Quvar.

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