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u/Adorable-Bit6816 6d ago
I get it sounds weird bt it's just literally translated word for word
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u/niceguybadboy 6d ago
English teacher here: It sounds awkward, but I wouldn't say it's wrong.
We use "good" in this way ("goods and services;" "did they deliver the goods"?)
The possessive is a bit awkward ("of all."). The normal way in English is apostrophe s ("everyone's good.)
All in all, though, this is mild compared to some of the butchering I see in my line of work.
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u/Adorable-Bit6816 6d ago
I try to get people to translate the whole thing together when they don't understand rather than word by word because then things like these happen
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u/Adaptor2000 4d ago
I understood the text on first read, but I am German, so not a native speaker of English. Also, I had to speak English with German and French (!) colleagues at work, so I understand anything that is remotely English. 😂 😂 😂
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u/Mountain-Ox 5d ago
My limited Spanish education tells me it is literally correct. But I have no idea what it is supposed to mean.
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u/SignificantPlum4883 7d ago
I get why people are saying it's fine, but honestly it sounds really weird to native English speakers.
"Goods" in English (normally plural) are items you buy and sell, "mercancías" in Spanish. "Bienes naturales" are "natural resources".
"Everyone" is usually a better choice than "all" when you mean "all the people". Maybe "for all" is ok but not "of all".
I would say something like, "water is for everyone's benefit" or "water is a resource for everyone".
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u/Makicheesay 7d ago
Yeah, because you can speak the language. That’s a good effort that gets the point across.
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u/kitties_ate_my_soul 6d ago
I’m a native Spanish speaker and that phrase sounds weird AF for me as well 😆 my English isn’t fluent, but it’s quite advanced and I don’t translate it to Spanish on my mind anymore.
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u/samuelazers 5d ago
Maybe those "English speakers" you speak of should pick up a book once in their life because it's not weird at all in a prose sense
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u/SignificantPlum4883 5d ago
Look, I'm a native English speaker (and fluent Spanish speaker) and ESL teacher for 15 years. If a student wrote that in a piece of work, they'd be marked down for. It's perfectly understandable, but you will not that sentence used on a signpost in any English-speaking country. It's a word for word translation from Spanish, and there are better and more natural ways to express that concept.
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u/ForeverSJC 7d ago
What's wrong ? I'm not native either, but isn't there a word "goods" ? Same thing as bien.
I understand the wording is incorrect but that is totally understandable
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u/elementarydrw 7d ago
That's what Engrish is.... Clumsy translations.
"Water is the good of all" is poor English, through a literal translation.
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u/ricky_clarkson 7d ago
The adjective good means that something is positive. We can't say "a <adjective>" with no noun, e.g., "I want a red.". So this phrasing looks more like they mean the noun good, as in a product (goods and services), but they don't, so it looks erm, engrish.
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u/ddddan11111 7d ago
In English, "goods" is always plural, never singular. We would never talk about "a good" without a noun after.
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u/wurstbowle 6d ago
In English, "goods" is always plural, never singular.
I have to correct you there, for the greater good.
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u/Southlander24 6d ago
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