>>>limar = sheetmetal
>>>
>>>:0)
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>>Nope: lim=sheet metal; limar=sheet metal worker.
>>
>>Three months ago I posted the following task to the AboutLanguage category on the same old BBS back home that I'm frequenting for the last 16 years: translate "izuj limara" unambiguously into English, the shortest you can.
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>"... that I've been frequenting for the last 16 years" :-) I'm sure yoiu're klapsing back into foreign. Next you'll be singing "Daisy ... Daisy ... Give me your answer ..." in Serbian :-)

Klaps it is. I guess I'm quite often translating - in my mind this was "posećujem već 16 godina" - "I visit already 16 years", where "already" is not a good translation; there's no word for this meaning of "već"... and yes, it doesn't feel right to me to use "have been frequenting" because it's not in the past. I'm still there - actually, I would have been there this moment, had you not jumped in with this.