[OFFTOPIC] The word 'davka' is complicated to translate (was: Re: Thunderbird mailer)

[Omer Zak]

There is a special blog article devoted to this subject:
http://elephant.org.il/translate/davka.html

--- Omer


On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 21:38 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:
> On Thursday 18 August 2011 21:06:40 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > [1] How to say דווקא in English?
> 
> The word is obviously related to e,g, דייק, and that's the clue. How to 
> translate it depends on the sentence, but I usually find that it fits 
> with "precisely", or "specifically", or something similar. This doesn't 
> work with a sentence like למה אתה מתנהג כל כך דווקא, only because that's 
> folk syntax, and the meaning has drifted.

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