Si la maquinaria militar no mata, se oxida. El presidente del planeta anda paseando el dedo por los mapas, a ver sobre qué país caerán las próximas bombas. Ha sido un éxito la guerra de Afganistán, que castigó a los castigados y mató a los muertos; y ya se necesitan enemigos nuevos. – Eduardo Galeano. (Uruguayan writer)
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...
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 thatheis the world'snavel, but oftenforgotten thatthe right of everyoneto 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 Thursday, February 09, 2012 13:11]
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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%]
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