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Translation - Brazilian Portuguese-English - Olá, alguém quer conversar??

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Title
Olá, alguém quer conversar??
Text
Submitted by Tiago_19
Source language: Brazilian Portuguese

Olá, alguém quer conversar??

Title
Hi, does anybody wanna talk?
Translation
English

Translated by Diego_Kovags
Target language: English

Hi, does anybody wanna talk?
Remarks about the translation
O "wanna" é uma contração do "want to", que em casos coloquiais, como no chat costuma ser usado, mas não deve ser usado em textos formais.
Ainda por se tratar de chat, é comum a supressão do "do/does", ressalto que informalmente. Portanto se dissesse no chat "Hi, anybody wanna talk?" a pergunta ainda assim seria compreendida.
Last validated or edited by dramati - 5 February 2008 07:37





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5 February 2008 01:33

Mats Fondelius
Number of messages: 153
Since it's not "meaning only" on this one I believe it is more correct to use correct and common language, i.e. "..want to talk??"

5 February 2008 01:54

Diego_Kovags
Number of messages: 515
Hello Figge!
If it were any formal text I'd agree with you. But that's a typical message from a chat and Tiago would never understand why only he writes 'want to' to say the same thing.
Thus I wrote a note commenting that.

PS: usually when people are chating they try to find a way to type as fast as they can, and sometimes they even have to replace or short some words, but I didn't do it.

5 February 2008 03:10

lilian canale
Number of messages: 14972
Diego:
since you used the auxiliar verb "does" I guess the "formal" sentence should be used as a whole.
I mean, either you say formally:
Does anybody/anyone want to talk?
or, informally:
Anybody wanna talk?
Mixing both doesn't sound like a good idea.
In fact, as you remarked, the informal way is a lot more usual in chats.