Umseting - Grikskt-Enskt - σκέφτομαι ότι ερωτεύομαι

Νομίζω πως οτι ερωτεύομαι

The problem is that the GREEK is the original and we are looking for the best ENGLISH translation.

Γι' αυτό λέω ότι το ελληνικό δε βγάζει νόημα. Δεν μεταφράζουμε στα ελληνικά το "I think I'm falling in love" αλλά στα αγγλικά το "σκέφτομαι ότι ερωτεύομαι". Εγώ προσωπικά δεν το έχω ακούσει ποτέ αυτό.

ti den exeis akousei prosopika? den katalaba

Το "σκέφτομαι ότι ερωτεύομαι".

νομίζω πως αρχίζω να ερωτεύομαι.

Nai, alla auto einai to prwtotypo keimeno. Ti na balw sta agglika dhladh?

Έλα ντε! Αυτό λέω κι εγώ! Εσύ καλά το πήγες αλλά το θέμα είναι πως η μετάφραση, ως "τέχνη", δεν μας επιτρέπει να κάνουμε τόσο μεγάλες διαφοροποιήσεις από το προτότυπο.
Αυτό που μετέφρασες είναι το αντίστοιχο του "νομίζω ότι ερωτεύομαι". Αν εννοούσε αυτό πάμε καλά. Αν όχι όμως; Προτείνω (αν συμφωνείς) να προσθέσεις μια σημείωση με το προβληματικόν της φράσης (δηλαδή ότι αυτό που μεταφράζεις είναι η μετάφραση της συνήθυους φράσης "νομίζω ότι ερωτεύομαι" και ότι η κατά λέξη μετάφραση είναι κάτι όπως το "I'm contemplating I am falling in love".

I think we should contact the requester and tell him that the original text seems to be a translation from English, but that it is not a normal sentence in Greek. Maybe he can give us more information.

Good idea, kafetzou!
Can you take over on this one for me? Too much Greek...
I won't say it, no, I won't say it, oh God, I'm gonna say it:
It's all Greek to me!
Shit, I said it...

Yes - I've already sent him a message (in Turkish - he's a Turkish speaker). But he hasn't logged on since he first posted the request on Nov. 4th, so I'm afraid this one may be doomed to the "circular file" ...

Well, I wrote a note in to the translation. I hope this solves the problem.

Yes - I saw that, and it's a really good idea. Maybe I should validate it now. irini, what do you think?

Yeap, with the note it looks much, much better. Since we can't really ever figure out exactly what it was supposed to mean validate away

Ian you meanie!

Hi irini!
I hope you've heard that expression before:
"It's all Greek to me!"
It's a really old, cliche'd English expression meaning
"I can't understand any of this"
(I guess because long ago, English speakers couldn't read Greek letters!)
Actually, it's funny, in French, with the exact same meaning, we say "It's Chinese!"

Anyway, I realized what a stupid thing I was saying! (We usually hate using cliche's in English...)

Sorry for the dumb dumb joke!

And in German, "It seems Spanish to me" - "Es kommt mir Spanisch vor".

in Chinese, it is:

God's language!

Well, as I already told Ian I wasn't insulted or anything (in fact I am rather used to it ) . In Greek it's "It's chinese" too, but I think the Chinese chose the best by far!!

In Spanish is Chinese too! We are alike to Greeks in some ways... All Mediterranean people anyway!

Wow! I'm so glad I made that dumb joke! I learned so much here because of it!

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