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Translation - English-Portuguese - you may not be as gay as this

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Title	you may not be as gay as this
Text Submitted by lipereira	Source language: English you may not be as gay as this

Title	vocÃª nÃ£o pode ser tÃ£o alegre quanto isso
Translation Portuguese Translated by Lady Priscila	Target language: Portuguese vocÃª nÃ£o pode ser tÃ£o 'gay' quanto isso

Validated by Sweet Dreams - 21 January 2008 19:32

Last messages

	Author	Message
		19 January 2008 00:22
	kafetzou Number of messages: 7963	NOTE: "gay" has several meanings nowadays in English. There's the original "gay" meaning "happy", but that only appears in very old fashioned texts. The most common meaning is "homosexual", but I'm not sure if that makes sense in this case. The third meaning is one used by young people (teens and young adults), which is "stupid" or "not streetwise".
		19 January 2008 04:41
	Angelus Number of messages: 1227	It has been translated as happy in the Portuguese text. I don't believe it has this meaning.
		19 January 2008 05:05
	kafetzou Number of messages: 7963	Neither do I - that's why I wrote the note.
		19 January 2008 19:21
	Sweet Dreams Number of messages: 2202	I think the same about it.
		20 January 2008 18:01
	kafetzou Number of messages: 7963	I like the current version with the English word "gay" left as is.