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Translation - Finnish-German - valmis hulluinhuoneeseen vietäväksi

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Title
valmis hulluinhuoneeseen vietäväksi
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Submitted by paratiisi
Source language: Finnish

valmis hulluinhuoneeseen vietäväksi

Title
bereit für die Klapsmühle
Translation
German

Translated by Rumo
Target language: German

bereit für die Klapsmühle
Validated by iamfromaustria - 20 November 2007 15:10





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19 November 2007 17:56

iamfromaustria
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ive actually never heard of this "saying". is "taken away" to be associated with "nuthouse"/"funny farm"?

(it would also be helpful to know the exact original meaning)

CC: Chantal IanMegill2 kafetzou Maribel

20 November 2007 02:35

kafetzou
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Yes - we say "you should be taken away" or "they're going to take you away", and the meaning of "to the insane asylum" is generally understood.

20 November 2007 08:44

IanMegill2
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Yup!
My mother used to sing this:

They're coming to take me away
Hee hee hoo hoo ha ha
to the funny farm!

Don't know where it was from, though!

20 November 2007 14:26

kafetzou
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"... where life is beautiful all the time,
and I'll be happy to see those nice young men
in their clean white coats,
and they're coming to take me a away, ha ha!"

20 November 2007 15:10

iamfromaustria
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haha sounds funny =)
but good to know now! unfortunately it's also proof that my english-german dictionary isn't as good as i always thought it would be...

21 November 2007 04:33

kafetzou
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It's an idiom - dictionaries are notoriously poor at handling those.

21 November 2007 14:40

iamfromaustria
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... and you dont really learn them at school, although they would be important when talking to a native speaker. you can be grammatically and verbally perfect, but not knowing these common expressions is one if the subtle but noticeable differences to a real native speaker.

29 November 2007 13:04

Maribel
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Excatly the song I had in mind

But literally from spoken finnish: "ready to be taken to an asylum" where the asylum should be changed to a more familiar equivalent - but very hard for a foreigner to know which word would have the same value of spoken language/humour. The song came to rescue...

29 November 2007 13:39

IanMegill2
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Yay! The crazy English experts, to the rescue!
(kafetzou says: "Speak for yourself, Ian!" )

29 November 2007 15:32

kafetzou
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Ha ha, hee, hee, you don't know me, Ian!