Translation - Portuguese brazilian-English - -Sempre alerta ; -Alerta, cobrir... Monitor,...

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Title	-Sempre alerta ; -Alerta, cobrir... Monitor,...
Text Submitted by Cabrale	Source language: Portuguese brazilian -Sempre alerta ; -Alerta, cobrir... Monitor, patrulha em formaÃ§Ã£o ! -Alerta, sub assume ; -Prometo, pela minha honra, fazer o melhor possÃvel ;
Remarks about the translation	No escotismo, essas sÃ£o algumas das oraÃ§Ãµes usadas nos dias das reuniÃµes, constantemente... necessito da traduÃ§Ã£o em 3 lÃnguas porque visitaremos estes paÃses em breve. (Mais necessariamente em latim e em russo!)

Title	Boy Scout Terms and Commands
Translation English Translated by Richard Roe	Target language: English (1) "Be Prepared" (2) "Attention, march! Patrol Leader, Patrol fall in!" (3) Attention, Junior Patrol Leader, assume command! (4) "On my honor, I will do my best..."
Remarks about the translation	(1) The motto of the Boy Scouts in the Lusophone world, "Sempre Alerta," is a translation of the original English "Be Prepared." (2) Sections (2) and (3) concern close-order drill commands, which vary from troop to troop. Consequently, and in the interest of full disclosure, please note that this translator is uncertain of the command "cobrir" in this context. I have conjectured that "cobrir" is used here in its sense of "percorrer determinada distancia." Additional context and precise punctuation would necessary to render these commands exactly. (3) Assuming that the use of â€œsubâ€ in this case is a truncation of the title â€œSub-Monitor,â€ the correct translation is â€œJunior Patrol Leader.â€ (4) This is a Portuguese-language translation of the first line of the Boy Scout oath, which in English is as follows: "On my honor I will do my best/To do my duty to God and my country/and to obey the Scout Law;/To help other people at all times;/To keep myself physically strong,/mentally awake, and morally straight."

Validated by kafetzou - 16 September 2007 16:05

Last messages

	Author	Message
		11 September 2007 13:08
	nmcaldas Number of messages: 4	Attention=Atencao nao Alerta On my honor, I will do my best..." = pela minha honra, farei o meu melhor
		11 September 2007 13:43
	Menininha Number of messages: 545	nmcaldas and everyone else who could be interessed: Please see the discussion in this first translation. CLICK HERE! Thanks
		11 September 2007 16:07
	ortizon Number of messages: 23	The only thing wrong is the "cobrir" it is used to calculated the distance between each boy scout
		11 September 2007 21:38
	Richard Roe Number of messages: 3	Thank you, Ortizon! That inaccuracy was torturing me. While the Scouts may have a unique command for that movement, the standard drill command would be "Right (or Left) Dress!" This calls for each man to hold his right arm out parallel to the ground, with his hand just short of the shoulder of the man to his right, to ensure uniform spacing.
		12 September 2007 22:35
	jafi Number of messages: 1	O termo "march" quer dizer marchar e nÃ£o cobrir. Apenas isso.
		23 October 2007 06:52
	Rodrigues Number of messages: 1621	"cobrir" => "defilade" and not "march" Therefore the English translation isn't correct !
		22 October 2007 21:24
	Richard Roe Number of messages: 3	The word you're looking for is "therefore" and not "therefor." You also failed to capitalize the initial letter in the word "English." But thanks for your interesting and helpful comments. Good luck on your English!
		23 October 2007 16:43
	Rodrigues Number of messages: 1621	I didn't understand, why "Richard Roe" is laying into my english, while I was pointing out, that the english translation from the portuguese text isn't correct, because "cobrir" isn't "march", but "defilade" !! ????
		24 October 2007 15:35
	Rodrigues Number of messages: 1621	The word "march" is still not edited by "defilade" ??
		24 October 2007 16:50
	goncin Number of messages: 3706	KafaÅguristino, It seems that this page check is for you. CC: kafetzou
		25 October 2007 00:05
	kafetzou Number of messages: 7963	What is defilade? I never heard of it. Maybe it should be "Forward march!"
		25 October 2007 00:14
	kafetzou Number of messages: 7963	According to this page, The only Word-of-Mouth commands necessary are "Troop Atten ... tion!" "Troop at ... Ease!" "Scout Sign!" "Scout Salute!" "Hands ... Down!" or "Two!" So ... is "troop" the word we want for "cobrir"?
		25 October 2007 01:55
	Rodrigues Number of messages: 1621	But "cobrir" means in german "Deckung / bedecken" and this I knows from my military service is, when all soldat's of a group have to cover/hide them in the ditch, for the enemy cannot see them. This is, like I know the word (german). On www.leo.org you enter "Deckung" there went "defilade [mil.]" the "mil." means military-word...
		25 October 2007 02:03
	casper tavernello Number of messages: 5057	No Franz. The word "cobrir" is used as Ortizon said, where the boys are in line and each boy puts his hand on the shoulder of the boy on his front. We used to do it in schools here.
		25 October 2007 05:52
	Rodrigues Number of messages: 1621	ok - accepted, but nevertheless this type of "doing" isn't "march" in english.