| |
|
Original text - Frans - C'est la merguez qui fait manger la baguette.Current status Original text
This text is available in the following languages:
Category Sentence - Humor
| C'est la merguez qui fait manger la baguette. | Text to be translated Submitted by Jeffw | Source language: Frans
C'est la merguez qui fait manger la baguette. | Remarks about the translation | Bonjour à tous, voici une phrase des plus étrange (née un jour de barbecue oú nous avions plus de pain que de bon sens) que certains d'entre nous avaient décidé d'inscrire, comme devise, au fronton de nos logis... Ce jour est venu. Je souhaiterais, si possible, cette phrase en latin. Alternativement, la "merguez" peut devenir "saucisse" et la "baguette"/"pain". D'avance merci. |
|
21 May 2010 11:39
Last messages | | | | | 4 June 2010 16:00 | | | "Farcimen panem edere ( ou "vorare" ) facit"
(la saucisse fait manger le pain)
Mais bon... mon latin est loin derrière!
Hi dear experts in Latin! how would you say : " it's sausage that makes one eat the bread"
Thanks!
CC: Aneta B. Efylove | | | 7 June 2010 15:04 | | | "it's sausage that makes one eat the bread"
"Farcimen id est quod personam panem edere facit"
or:
"Farcimen res est quae personam panem edere facit"
| | | 16 June 2010 11:48 | | JeffwNumber of messages: 5 | Merci, thanks, dziękuję !
So far so good and I'm liking it.
In a perfect world I would try to mix both translation because the exact sense I would like to obtain is (and I know it looks barbaric in English) : "It's the sausage that makes/gets the bread eaten"
That way, we get rid off that 'personam' in Aneta translation... but I don't know if there is a passive voice in Latin (well, I guess there is but I don't know what it is...).
I also prefer 'vorare' to 'edere' for the image that goes with it, a more eager way of eating (even if it's not as correct).
Would something like :
"Farcimen est qui panem vorare facit" works ?
Or is it too 'Latin de cuisine' ? | | | 16 June 2010 13:39 | | | Vous etes bienvenue! You’re Welcome! Nie ma za co!
I’m sorry, Jeffw, but your proposition is out of Latin grammar a bit.
“Farcimen†is gender neutral so can’t take “qui†which is masculine, but "quod". Morover, your proposition (since without" this "personam" ) means: "it's sausage that makes the bread eating" haha!
My third proposition (in the passive voice and with a more meaningful verb “vorare†(=devour) ):
"Farcimen (id) est quod panem voratum facit".
Ok. I will make the translation official now and start a poll for it.
My warm greetings! Pozdrawiam serdecznie!
|
|
| |
|