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> **勉強とコミュニケーション能力。一見すると交わり合わないような項目同士。**

**交わる** : 1. to cross; to intersect; to join; to meet​, 2. to associate with;
to mingle with; to consort with, 3. to have a sexual relationship; to
copulate.

**合わない** --> **合う** : 1. to come together; to merge; to unite; to meet​, 2. to
fit; to match; to suit; to agree with; to be correct​, 3. to be profitable; to
be equitable​, 4. to do ... to each other; to do ... together​after the -masu
stem of a verb (Auxiliary verb, Godan verb with u ending).

**同士** : 1. fellow; mutual; companion; comrade.

I was wondering if the following translation is proper:

"Our communication skills with our study. Those (kind of) subjects are not
related/matched with each other at first glance."

I saw from many examples that it seems **同士** attached to a noun is not
necessary to be translated specifically. Is it a correct interpretation?

Thank you for your kind guidance.
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translation formal-nouns plural-suffixes
交わり合わないような項目同士 translation
Your translation is fine. Did you notice that 同士 is actually "reflected" in
your English? I mean:

> _subject **s**_

同士 might be a tricky word, but not totally untranslatable to English if you
bear with a disproportionately lengthy definition, that **X** 同士 means _those
each of who/which is (equally) a **X** to each other_. And this may explain
why it is usually "not necessary to be translated specifically" in English.

> 恋人同士 "those each of who is the lover of each other" → _lovers_  
>  ゲーム機同士の通信 "transmission between game consoles each of which is fellow of
> each other" → _transmission between (correspondent) game consoles_  
>  仲間同士のけんか "quarrel of those each of who is a partner/friend of each other" →
> _quarrel among friends_  
>  cf. 仲間たちのけんか _quarrel of my friends [had with another party]_
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