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

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

you may not be as gay as this

Title
você não pode ser tão alegre quanto isso
Translation
Portuguese

Translated by Lady Priscila
Target language: Portuguese

você não pode ser tão 'gay' quanto isso
Validated by Sweet Dreams - 21 January 2008 19:32





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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.