Alkuperäinen teksti - Englanti - Tell the people...Tämänhetkinen tilanne Alkuperäinen teksti
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| | Teksti käännettäväksi Lähettäjä jmzx | Alkuperäinen kieli: Englanti
Tell the people... | | Require a literal translation, ( 'the people' meaning 'the masses' or 'all the people being addressed' ). |
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Viimeksi toimittanut Francky5591 - 6 Huhtikuu 2009 16:27
Viimeinen viesti | | | | | 6 Huhtikuu 2009 16:05 | | | As it is not a complete sentence, I personaly suggest to remove it. What do you think about it, colleagues? CC: lilian canale goncin | | | 6 Huhtikuu 2009 16:09 | | | Well...actually it IS a complete imperative sentence. It's like "Inform the people!" | | | 6 Huhtikuu 2009 16:11 | | | Tell the people what? "inform the people" would be acceptable IMO.
I had a translation into French to evaluate and this is not a complete sentence, although it was literaly translated, as requester wanted... | | | 6 Huhtikuu 2009 16:12 | | | I know what you mean...but technically... | | | 6 Huhtikuu 2009 16:27 | | | OK, before spreading this one back onto the requested translations, and if you don't mind, we'll use three dots at the end of the original text (whatever is to be told the people)
| | | 6 Huhtikuu 2009 16:40 | | jmzxViestien lukumäärä: 3 | Thank you for your interest in my sentence, and your effort to uncover my meaning.
To try to shed light, I meant the imperative form to be used as a slogan or a phrase. My mistake in not punctuating the sentence with a stop, or an exclamation mark. However, it is the form of the sentence that i am interested in. As you say, perhaps 'inform' may have been more appropriate. |
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