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| | 23 October 2007 14:36 |
| | Hi iepurica!
Does
applying your plan
mean
putting your plan into action
? |
| | 23 October 2007 14:43 |
| | Yes, I guess I have translated (AGAIN) directly from Romanian. I should pay more attention. Thank you. |
| | 23 October 2007 14:52 |
| | Hmm..I still don't understand the connection between
So you have started to put your plan into action
and
your brother will not get away without a good fight
Especially that second phrase is strange:
your brother will not ... without a good fight
would usually mean
he will not accept ...; he will try to stop ... or fight ...
but why would he not accept his own escape, why would he try to stop or fight his own escape? |
| | 23 October 2007 15:28 |
| FreyaNumber of messages: 1910 | "frate-miu" means "my brother" |
| | 23 October 2007 19:43 |
| | This is the problem with the Romanian texts. They are not easy to translate, always full of irony, metaphoras or paradigms. "dar tot nu scapă frate-miu fără o bătaie bună" it's a funny way of "threatning" somebody. "a scăpa" means EXACTLY "to get away" and "fără o bătaie bună" means "without a good beating" or "without being well beaten", but than it would have been more confusing, so I preffered to use fight instead.
PS. Freya has a point there, it was "my brother", not "your brother".
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| | 23 October 2007 18:03 |
| | Dacă îmi permiţi, Freya, am o mică precizare referitor la traducerea de faţă: nu poţi pune că sensul unui întreg text este greşit numai pentru o mică greşeală precum "tău" în loc de "meu". În astfel de cazuri, în general se postează un comentariu în josul paginii, cuvântul cu pricina nu schimbă intregul sens al frazei. |
| | 24 October 2007 04:07 |
| FreyaNumber of messages: 1910 | Bine. Scuze. De acum aşa o să fac. Nu ştiam exact cum se procedează. Nicio supărare, nu? |
| | 24 October 2007 04:48 |
| | Thanks, iepurica!
Okay, I guess I have to change it to
without a good beating
because without a good fight means only
he tries hard to stop something
not
he gets beaten up!
I'll edit it! |
| | 24 October 2007 06:34 |
| | Thanks, Ian. It seems that I don't know English as well as I believed.
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| | 24 October 2007 09:53 |
| | Andreea, your English is great! Never doubt it!
It's just that, at a very high level, suddenly the nuances become so important...
If I tried to write Romanian, you would fall on the floor laughing! |
| | 24 October 2007 14:14 |
| | Nu îţi face probleme Freya, nu m-am supărat absolut deloc. Niciodată nu mă supăr pe cei care sunt bine intenţionaţi şî chiar te rog să îmi atragi atenţia atunci când mai apar greşeli de genul celei de aici. Mulţumesc frumos. |