When compared to the sign SUCCEED which is made with two movements, the sign AT-LAST is one sharp movement and has historically been called an ASL idiom for the very reason of its non-translatability.
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If the subject of translatability is of interest, I strongly recommend having a look at Douglas Hofstadter's book Le Ton beau de Marot . ( Note : although the title is in French, the book is in English ) .-- Anonymous, 05 : 07 UTC, January 6, 2008.
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Using a CP / M-80 manual as reference Paterson modeled 86-DOS after its architecture and interfaces, but adapted to meet the requirements of Intel's 8086 16-bit processor, for easy ( and partially automated ) source-level translatability of the many existing 8-bit CP / M programs; porting them to either DOS or CP / M-86 was about equally difficult.
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The ambiguity of the term " elohim " is the result of such changes, cast in terms of " vertical translatability ", i . e . the re-interpretation of the gods of the earliest recalled period as the national god of monolatrism as it emerged in the 7th to 6th century BCE in the Kingdom of Judah and during the Babylonian captivity, and further in terms of monotheism by the emergence of Rabbinical Judaism in the 2nd century CE.
