Hindsight is always 20/20

[powerchisper]

Hello friends :

I think this is the most-difficult-to-transate sentence I've ever found .

Literally can be traduced as "El panorama/visión siempre es 20/20" , but this doesn't make much sense here in Spain.

An English guy at my factory told me this must be an American thing.

"Hindsight in always 20/20 , but looking back it's still a bit fuzzy"

Maybe refers to a change of opinion ( vision ) with the years ?

[aleCcowaN]

Creo que es algo como "es muy fácil hacer predicciones cuando ya sabes lo que pasó", pero no estoy seguro.

[wrholt]

Alec has the right sense.

[Perikles]

I don't know whether I'm explaining what you already know, but at least in the UK, and presumably in the US, eyesight ability is measured on a scale of 0 (blind) to 20. Thus 20/20 vision is perfect sight. Thus it is saying that everything is obvious in hindsight. It is probably just AmE, but anybody in the UK who has had his/her eyes tested would understand what it meant.

I put it in the same category as other irritiating expressions using numbers which are used by people who can't express themselves in words, for example 24/7. :)

[Rusty]

This article (http://www.mdsupport.org/library/acuity.html) describes what 20/20 visual acuity means. Legal blindness is a term ascribed to persons with 20/200 acuity, or worse (a higher number on the right). The lower the number on the right, the better your vision. The number on the left represents the standard testing measurement of 20 feet. If you have 20/20 vision, your eye sees at 20 feet what a normal eye sees at 20 feet. Contrary to popular belief, 20/20 vision is not perfect sight. Many people can see the 20/15 line (the line above 20/20), and even the 20/10 line (the line above that).

[powerchisper]

Thanks.

I think this is related to something done in the past , like "al principio todo se ve muy bonito"

In this case , maybe " Antes lo veía todo muy claro , pero mirando atras aun está un poco borroso"

In the same song , he says " A dark black past is my most valued possession"

[Elaina]

"No hay mejor camino que el que ya has recorrido"

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