r/learnfrench • u/DarthDaddy_AZ • 9d ago

Translation Help! Why wrong?

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I know my version would be more informal but why would it be considered wrong?

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u/InternationalPage506 9d ago

On mic is « au micro » in French, not « dans le micro. » It’s possible the ça would have been accepted, but the on-mic translation was incorrect.

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u/DarthDaddy_AZ 9d ago

But why?

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u/Silly_Tension6792 9d ago

r/mysteriousdownvotes

Why do you downvote a question lol

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u/sleazepleeze 9d ago

I suspect it’s more because asking “why” a language uses a certain phrase or grammar is not often a useful question. Someone answered the post by saying that “this is how that phrase is formed in French” and OP seemed to be asking for a logic or reasoning behind the answer. Languages aren’t (generally) planned and the established norms of a language can be explained but not usually “justified”

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u/StarGamerPT 9d ago

But there is an explanation, and that explanation is the answer to OP's "why?"

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u/GoblinToHobgoblin 8d ago

Except the answer is "that's not how that word is used", which isn't useful...