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| | 20 Tháng 10 2007 03:57 |
| | Something is wrong here, as Ian has pointed out above. CC: wkn |
| | 20 Tháng 10 2007 06:26 |
| ![](../avatars/84171.img) piasTổng số bài gửi: 8113 | ok...The one who lights the cigarette is me =I
Should it be corrected to:
I am shocked and I'm lighting a cigarette,
if this is the end of the world.
?? |
| | 20 Tháng 10 2007 14:34 |
| | OK; I've replaced your original translation with this new version and re-set the voting. |
| | 20 Tháng 10 2007 16:42 |
| | This is what the Danish original actually says:
"If the world comes to an end, I will go into shock and light a cigarette".
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| | 20 Tháng 10 2007 17:56 |
| ![](../avatars/84171.img) piasTổng số bài gửi: 8113 | hm....you again Anita_Luciano
I guess I have to trust you, AND actually it sounds better to my eares to put it that way..
but(maybe a very stupid question)is it common in Danish language to put the sences not in direct series? It seem to me that they turn the sences a bit backward.
Kafetzou, should I correct that to Anita's proposal? |
| | 20 Tháng 10 2007 18:09 |
| | I think it would also have sounded better to MY ears if the sentence had been like this: "Hvis jorden går under, går jeg i chok og tænder en cigaret", but it´s not wrong (at all) to write it the other way. And as to whether or not it´s commom in Danish.... humm... I guess it is. "jeg tror, at mit hjerte ville briste, hvis du forlod mig", "jeg sender et brev til dig imorgen, hvis jeg kan finde et posthus her i byen". But it also goes for this kind of sentence construction that you can always turn them the other way around and it would still be just as "correct Danish" as the other way ( --> "Hvis du forlod mig, tror jeg, at mit hjerte ville briste", "hvis jeg kan finde et posthus her i byen, sender jeg et brev til dig imorgen".) |
| | 20 Tháng 10 2007 18:16 |
| ![](../avatars/84171.img) piasTổng số bài gửi: 8113 | OK, good to know.
Thanks for telling me. |
| | 20 Tháng 10 2007 22:39 |
| | I don't understand why people voted yes on this. I have edited and will again re-set the voting. Thanks, Anita_Luciano for your help.
P.S. The order of the two clauses doesn't matter in English either. |
| | 21 Tháng 10 2007 11:37 |
| | Engelsk chock = dansk chok |
| | 21 Tháng 10 2007 11:46 |
| | procrastinator: Not according to my dictionaries.
Danish "chok" = English "shock" |
| | 22 Tháng 10 2007 07:19 |
| ![](../avatars/28658.img) wknTổng số bài gửi: 332 | ... I've been on a concert tour these past days, that's why I haven't commented. The result is fine and I agree completely with Anita's lectures in Danish :-) |