Posted:
Πέμπτη, 9 Φεβρουαρίου 2012 12:27 μμ GMT | Post #243057—in reply to #243055 +0-0 |
Nanna Mercer
Μητρικές Γλώσσες: Αγγλικά, Δανικά
Joined: Σάββατο, 12 Φεβρουαρίου 2005
Location: Δανία |
RE: Do you need privacy?
I understood the LT translation via GT and to show you that I understood it, I alluded to the fact that the Danes often think that Denmark is the navel of the world, i.e., the butter-hole in the middle, which literally means the hole in the middle of the rice porridge where you put a dab of sweet butter (smør)
What GT did with the translation ---- I still have tears in my eyes from laughing and it only goes to show you that localization is a fine art...
Nanna, still laughing
|
 Reply
| Quote
| Επεξεργασία
| Διαγραφή
|
Posted:
Πέμπτη, 9 Φεβρουαρίου 2012 12:49 μμ GMT | Post #243059—in reply to #243057 +0-0 |
Dodo Kaipdodo
TC Master
Expert     Μητρική γλώσσα: ΛιθουανικάPosts: 318429 Joined: Τετάρτη, 8 Αυγούστου 2007 Location: Λιθουανία |
RE: Do you need privacy?
Um... I GTd the LT into Danish, and then I GTd the result into English, and this is what I got:
Everyone knows that he is the world's navel, but often forgotten that the right of everyone to the navel
Funny, kinda, but not overly so...
|
| Reply
|Quote
|Επεξεργασία
|Διαγραφή
|
Posted:
Πέμπτη, 9 Φεβρουαρίου 2012 1:08 μμ GMT | Post #243060—in reply to #243059 +0-0 |
Nanna Mercer
Μητρικές Γλώσσες: Αγγλικά, Δανικά
Joined: Σάββατο, 12 Φεβρουαρίου 2005
Location: Δανία |
RE: Do you need privacy?
Originally written by Dodo Kaipdodo on February 9, 2012 12:49 PM
Um... I GTd the LT into Danish, and then I GTd the result into English, and this is what I got:
Everyone knows that he is the world's navel, but often forgotten that the right of everyone to the navel
Funny, kinda, but not overly so...
|
Dodo,
I am laughing because the three Danish words when translated via GT came out completely wrong and thus very rude, which was not in any way intended. i think my English is clear, but in case it's not, I am sorry, for I don't have any more time to explain a simple joke.
[Edited by Nanna Mercer on Πέμπτη, 9 Φεβρουαρίου 2012 1:11 μμ]
|
| Reply
|Quote
|Επεξεργασία
|Διαγραφή
|
Posted:
Πέμπτη, 9 Φεβρουαρίου 2012 4:06 μμ GMT | Post #243084—in reply to #243057 +0-0 |
Dodo Kaipdodo
TC Master
Expert Μητρική γλώσσα: ΛιθουανικάPosts: 318429 Joined: Τετάρτη, 8 Αυγούστου 2007 Location: Λιθουανία |
RE: Do you need privacy?
| Originally written by Nanna Mercer on February 9, 2012 12:27 PM
I alluded to the fact that the Danes often think that Denmark is the navel of the world, i.e., the butter-hole in the middle |
Don`t we all? Think we are the hub of everything, I mean?
| Originally written by Jacek K. on February 9, 2012 12:22 PM
in a scholarly translation |
I do not like scholars very much... Because they tend to make simple things tangled and vice versa. And because they use at least ten words where just one word would suffice. And of course because their scholarly native is even more clumsy than my translations into my C or D or ... ...
Back to privacy, though.
Yes, and I enjoy it, full extent. 40 votes - [85.11%]
I`d say 85.11% optimists is good.
Or scary?
|
| Reply
|Quote
|Επεξεργασία
|Διαγραφή
|
Language, Literature, Arts, Religion, Other 
TC Mobile |
Ρυθμίσεις Φόρουμ |
Σύνδεση
Επικοινωνήστε Μαζί μας
