Archived What does this sentence mean? "Explain the target language"? (AskVoat)
submitted ago by Ricoiyte
Posted by: Ricoiyte
Posting time: 1.1 years ago on
Last edit time: never edited.
Archived on: 1/27/2020 10:00:00 AM
Views: 24
SCP: -1
1 upvotes, 2 downvotes (33% upvoted it)
Archived What does this sentence mean? "Explain the target language"? (AskVoat)
submitted ago by Ricoiyte
view the rest of the comments →
[–] Ricoiyte [S] ago (edited ago)
I'm waiting to give more context, because if i've misconstrued something here i want to "get told". So i'm isolating this one aspect in order to drill into whether I'm messing this up or not.
I was only using english as an example. That being said, does "explain the target language" also mean "explain the english" if the target language is english, with the given context that you have.
[–] Tallest_Skil ago
Ah, er… no, to swap the name of a specific language for the phrase “target language” wouldn’t retain the meaning of the question. Either the question is asking you to explain the nature of WHAT a target language is, or I have no idea what it wants because there’s no context around it.