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10Translation - Turkish-English - sözüm ona sevdin

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Category Song - Love / Friendship

This translation request is "Meaning only".
Title
sözüm ona sevdin
Text
Submitted by Gulay
Source language: Turkish

Yokluğuna alışamadım, kader değil atamadım.
Çok bekledim, çok ağladım.

Seni kimseyle konuşamadım.
Seni kimseye anlatamadım.

Yüreğime son bir gözyaşı bırakıpta gittin.
Anlamadın zalim, sözüm ona sevdin

Title
you only seemed to have loved
Translation
English

Translated by madreperla
Target language: English

I haven't been able to get used to your absence, it's not fate, I couldn't throw it off.
I waited so much, I cried so much.

I couldn't talk about you with anyone.
I couldn't explain you to anyone.

You left one last tear for my heart and went away.
You didn't understand, cruel one, you only seemed to have loved.
Last validated or edited by kafetzou - 29 July 2007 23:34





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29 July 2007 17:30

Francky5591
Number of messages: 12396
Could any English expert have a look to the english text, it was validated by the requester, but I think some edit is needed.

CC: kafetzou Una Smith

29 July 2007 18:36

Una Smith
Number of messages: 429
The English target is rather ungrammatical and has spelling errors too. However, as a "meaning only" translation I think it can be accepted.

29 July 2007 18:44

Francky5591
Number of messages: 12396
OK thanks Una Smith !(it is accepted)

29 July 2007 22:23

kafetzou
Number of messages: 7963
This translation should NOT have been accepted - the English is wrong in several cases, and several phrases have been left out completely! Please un-accept it, Francky.

CC: Una Smith

29 July 2007 23:13

kafetzou
Number of messages: 7963
Here's what it should mean:

I haven't been able to get used to your absence, it's not fate, I couldn't throw it off.
I waited so much, I cried so much.

I couldn't talk about you with anyone.
I couldn't explain you to anyone.

You left one last tear for my heart and went away.
You didn't understand, cruel one, you only seemed to have loved.

29 July 2007 22:31

kafetzou
Number of messages: 7963
serba, could you help with this?

CC: serba

29 July 2007 23:00

Una Smith
Number of messages: 429
Should I have declined to give an opinion on the English target, given I don't read the source language?

Anyway, this is a "meaning only" translation; does it merit precision and completeness?

I am near the point of asking JP to discontinue the "meaning only" option.

29 July 2007 23:10

kafetzou
Number of messages: 7963
Hi Una

Well, I think that if you give an opinion, you should specify that you don't know the source language.

I think it's not about precision here - the meaning is wrong! It's in present tense, when the meaning is past, and there are whole phrases missing.

I think this was a misunderstanding, initially caused by the requester accepting the translation - I don't know how (or why) she did that.

29 July 2007 23:28

Francky5591
Number of messages: 12396
As I can't unaccept a translation, I still can edit, and that's what I did with the English text.
For someone to unaccept, we'd wait a much more longer time, as only JP can do it, and he's in holidays...

29 July 2007 23:34

kafetzou
Number of messages: 7963
OK; maybe that's a better solution in this case.

30 July 2007 01:11

Una Smith
Number of messages: 429
Requesters have the power to accept/reject pending translations of their own source texts. That is a function they see on their requested translations page. I did it myself now and then, before I was made an expert, when the translation looked good enough to me and/or the wait for an expert was too long.

Some members here seem to be under the impression that it is the requester's job to accept/reject translations.

Now more than ever I dislike the "meaning only" option. Meaning is so subjective and a wildly incorrect translation may or may not convey the correct meaning.

--Una

30 July 2007 04:55

serba
Number of messages: 655
it seems to be okey to me...
I guess you already corrected it

30 July 2007 15:48

kafetzou
Number of messages: 7963
Thanks, serba.

Una, I think that when the requester herself rejects/accepts the translation, it still goes into the queue for the experts to confirm the acceptance/rejection.