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Translation - Japanese-English - urusai dattebayo

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This translation request is "Meaning only".

Title	urusai dattebayo
Text Submitted by melissa_rw	Source language: Japanese -urusai dattebayo -dattebayo desu ka..
Remarks about the translation	Durante uma conversa no msn, um colega de trabalho me mandou estas duas frases

Title	I told you to shut up!
Translation English Translated by IanMegill2	Target language: English - I telled you, shut up! - "telled"?
Remarks about the translation	The literal meaning is: I told you already, you're NOISY! "dattebayo"? That's a strange expression... --- The usual expression is just "datte-ba" which means "I TOLD you, ..." and it's not usually used with the particle "yo" at the end (which is a kind of "verbal exclamation point"). So Speaker #2 is making fun of the expression used by Speaker #1, by repeating the strange expression "datte-ba-YO" with the "verbal question mark": ...desu ka? --- The English translation is an attempt to give the "feel" of the mocking tone of Speaker #2, who is making fun of the WAY Speaker #1 has told him to shut up, and IGNORING his MESSAGE. (Good idea from Lilian Canale! ^_^ )

Validated by IanMegill2 - 13 September 2008 04:37

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		12 September 2008 17:34
	lilian canale จำนวนข้อความ: 14972	Hi Ian, This request is a bit confusing and the experts for the other languages are having problems to evaluate the translations since they seem to be based on yours. For what I understood from your remarks, we have a word game here. I think the word which should be important for the second person to mock the first is that "told". Could your version be: "- I teld you you were noisy! - teld ehm?" What do you think?
		13 September 2008 04:11
	IanMegill2 จำนวนข้อความ: 1671	Hi Lilly, Sure, that seems to me to be a good conceptual/linguistic equivalent in English, which suitably conveys the "teasing" in the original text. I don't suppose we have to stick to the actual Japanese expression here; the important fact is that Speaker #1 (perhaps not a native speaker) is using a strange expression ("datte-ba-YO" ), and Speaker #2 is ignoring his message, and making fun of the way he tried to communicate it... Usually people in Japan are not impolite like this, though...)
		13 September 2008 04:23
	lilian canale จำนวนข้อความ: 14972	Great! Then...if you edit your English version it will certainly be easier for us to find an appropriate way to render that into Spanish and Portuguese. I think "telled" would be even better. Thanks Ian.
		13 September 2008 04:31
	IanMegill2 จำนวนข้อความ: 1671	Can do!