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31 Dec 2007, 11:37 pm

Huh?



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31 Dec 2007, 11:40 pm

What, your dad never made bilingual puns? I thought everybody... ne'mind. :D



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31 Dec 2007, 11:43 pm

My dad always said "S*** the monkey!" Crazy was his second language. Does that count? hehe jp

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01 Jan 2008, 12:41 am

SleepyDragon wrote:
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It's my father's fault. :)

Is he the male hippy?

Nup. But I got the wordplay&pun gene off him.

  • One man's fish is another man's poisson.
  • Je t'adore. - Zhut it yourself, you h'opened h'it.
  • ... you get the idea. :)


Ya hay si, o que.



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01 Jan 2008, 12:43 am

...why? why must we pun?!


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01 Jan 2008, 12:50 am

And one mustn't forget the classic in the first Fawlty Towers episode, A Touch of Class.

Basil spots Manuel going by with three breakfast trays, and moves over, frustrated.

FAWLTY: Manuel! Please! There is too much butter on those trays.

MANUEL: Que?

FAWLTY: There is too much butter (points to each tray with each word) on-those-trays!

MANUEL: No, no, no, Senor.

FAWLTY: What?

MANUEL: Not 'on-those-trays'. No, sir, 'uno-dos-tres'. Uno-dos-tres.

FAWLTY: No, no. Hay mucho burro alli!

MANUEL: Que?

FAWLTY: Hay mucho burro alli!

MANUEL: Ah, mantequilla!

FAWLTY: What?

MANUEL: Mantequilla. Burro is, is like hee-haw!


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01 Jan 2008, 12:54 am

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Chipetal has gone to bed.

I like the hippy gnu ear picture :D


Your avatar is freaking me out. Reminds me of an old (original) Battlestar Galactica episode. My favorite one in fact.


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01 Jan 2008, 1:35 am

Quatermass wrote:
And one mustn't forget the classic in the first Fawlty Towers episode, A Touch of Class.


Quote:
Basil spots Manuel going by with three breakfast trays, and moves over, frustrated.


Basil mira Manuel pasando con tres bandejas de desayuno, y movas a lado, enojado.

Quote:
FAWLTY: Manuel! Please! There is too much butter on those trays.


Manuel! Por favor! Hay demasiado mantequilla en aquellas bandejas.

Quote:
MANUEL: Que?


What?

Quote:
FAWLTY: There is too much butter (points to each tray with each word) on-those-trays!


Hay demasiado mantequilla (indica con dedo para cada uno) en aquellas bandejas!


Quote:
MANUEL: No, no, no, Senor.


No, no, no sir.

Quote:
FAWLTY: What?


Que?

Quote:
MANUEL: Not 'on-those-trays'. No, sir, 'uno-dos-tres'. Uno-dos-tres.


Ni <<en aquellas bandejas.>> No, senor, <<one-two-three>>.<<one-two-three>>.

Quote:
FAWLTY: No, no. Hay mucho burro alli!


No, no. There's a lot of donkey there!

Quote:
MANUEL: Que?


What?

Quote:
FAWLTY: Hay mucho burro alli!


There's a lot of donkey there!

Quote:
MANUEL: Ah, mantequilla!


Ah, butter!

Quote:
FAWLTY: What?


Que?

Quote:
MANUEL: Mantequilla. Burro is, is like hee-haw!


Butter. Donkey es... es <<Hee-HAW!>>

Translated by myself without online help.



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01 Jan 2008, 1:37 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Quatermass wrote:
And one mustn't forget the classic in the first Fawlty Towers episode, A Touch of Class.


Quote:
Basil spots Manuel going by with three breakfast trays, and moves over, frustrated.


Basil mira Manuel pasando con tres bandejas de desayuno, y movas a lado, enojado.

Quote:
FAWLTY: Manuel! Please! There is too much butter on those trays.


Manuel! Por favor! Hay demasiado mantequilla en aquellas bandejas.

Quote:
MANUEL: Que?


What?

Quote:
FAWLTY: There is too much butter (points to each tray with each word) on-those-trays!


Hay demasiado mantequilla (indica con dedo para cada uno) en aquellas bandejas!


Quote:
MANUEL: No, no, no, Senor.


No, no, no sir.

Quote:
FAWLTY: What?


Que?

Quote:
MANUEL: Not 'on-those-trays'. No, sir, 'uno-dos-tres'. Uno-dos-tres.


Ni <<en aquellas bandejas.>> No, senor, <<one-two-three>>.<<one-two-three>>.

Quote:
FAWLTY: No, no. Hay mucho burro alli!


No, no. There's a lot of donkey there!

Quote:
MANUEL: Que?


What?

Quote:
FAWLTY: Hay mucho burro alli!


There's a lot of donkey there!

Quote:
MANUEL: Ah, mantequilla!


Ah, butter!

Quote:
FAWLTY: What?


Que?

Quote:
MANUEL: Mantequilla. Burro is, is like hee-haw!


Butter. Donkey es... es <<Hee-HAW!>>

Translated by myself without online help.


oy.


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01 Jan 2008, 1:39 am

NoNameRockBand wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Quatermass wrote:
And one mustn't forget the classic in the first Fawlty Towers episode, A Touch of Class.


Quote:
Basil spots Manuel going by with three breakfast trays, and moves over, frustrated.


Basil mira Manuel pasando con tres bandejas de desayuno, y movas a lado, enojado.

Quote:
FAWLTY: Manuel! Please! There is too much butter on those trays.


Manuel! Por favor! Hay demasiado mantequilla en aquellas bandejas.

Quote:
MANUEL: Que?


What?

Quote:
FAWLTY: There is too much butter (points to each tray with each word) on-those-trays!


Hay demasiado mantequilla (indica con dedo para cada uno) en aquellas bandejas!


Quote:
MANUEL: No, no, no, Senor.


No, no, no sir.

Quote:
FAWLTY: What?


Que?

Quote:
MANUEL: Not 'on-those-trays'. No, sir, 'uno-dos-tres'. Uno-dos-tres.


Ni <<en aquellas bandejas.>> No, senor, <<one-two-three>>.<<one-two-three>>.

Quote:
FAWLTY: No, no. Hay mucho burro alli!


No, no. There's a lot of donkey there!

Quote:
MANUEL: Que?


What?

Quote:
FAWLTY: Hay mucho burro alli!


There's a lot of donkey there!

Quote:
MANUEL: Ah, mantequilla!


Ah, butter!

Quote:
FAWLTY: What?


Que?

Quote:
MANUEL: Mantequilla. Burro is, is like hee-haw!


Butter. Donkey es... es <<Hee-HAW!>>

Translated by myself without online help.


oy.


Yes, bugger off, iamnotaparakeet. I did not ask for that translation.


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01 Jan 2008, 1:56 am

Quatermass wrote:
NoNameRockBand wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Quatermass wrote:
And one mustn't forget the classic in the first Fawlty Towers episode, A Touch of Class.


Quote:
Basil spots Manuel going by with three breakfast trays, and moves over, frustrated.


Basil mira Manuel pasando con tres bandejas de desayuno, y movas a lado, enojado.

Quote:
FAWLTY: Manuel! Please! There is too much butter on those trays.


Manuel! Por favor! Hay demasiado mantequilla en aquellas bandejas.

Quote:
MANUEL: Que?


What?

Quote:
FAWLTY: There is too much butter (points to each tray with each word) on-those-trays!


Hay demasiado mantequilla (indica con dedo para cada uno) en aquellas bandejas!


Quote:
MANUEL: No, no, no, Senor.


No, no, no sir.

Quote:
FAWLTY: What?


Que?

Quote:
MANUEL: Not 'on-those-trays'. No, sir, 'uno-dos-tres'. Uno-dos-tres.


Ni <<en aquellas bandejas.>> No, senor, <<one-two-three>>.<<one-two-three>>.

Quote:
FAWLTY: No, no. Hay mucho burro alli!


No, no. There's a lot of donkey there!

Quote:
MANUEL: Que?


What?

Quote:
FAWLTY: Hay mucho burro alli!


There's a lot of donkey there!

Quote:
MANUEL: Ah, mantequilla!


Ah, butter!

Quote:
FAWLTY: What?


Que?

Quote:
MANUEL: Mantequilla. Burro is, is like hee-haw!


Butter. Donkey es... es <<Hee-HAW!>>

Translated by myself without online help.


oy.


Yes, bugger off, iamnotaparakeet. I did not ask for that translation.


Why? It makes more sense now! Manuel is now an English speaking person working in a hotel in Spain and Basil is a Spaniard and couldn't care less about his choice of words in English.



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01 Jan 2008, 2:04 am

Leave it to actual translators working in Spain, Mexico, and for the Hispanics in the US. They can make the puns work anyway.


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01 Jan 2008, 2:13 am

Quatermass wrote:
Leave it to actual translators working in Spain, Mexico, and for the Hispanics in the US. They can make the puns work anyway.


I may not have a college degree in speaking Spanish, but aside from 2 years of textbook knowledge I've lived with Mexicans for 3 months and have been a part of a bilingual Church for a year. I know Spanish fairly well; it was sort of an off-shoot of studying etymology and history.



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01 Jan 2008, 2:23 am

Yes, but reverse-translating the dialogue from Fawlty Towers sort of takes the culture-clash out of the situation. It's like Futurama, where French was said to be a dead language. In the French translation, they made it German, on recollection.


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01 Jan 2008, 2:32 am

Quatermass wrote:
Yes, but reverse-translating the dialogue from Fawlty Towers sort of takes the culture-clash out of the situation. It's like Futurama, where French was said to be a dead language. In the French translation, they made it German, on recollection.


I imagine the French wouldn't be too amused otherwise.


Would you focus some attention on Strapples in the Three word at a time story? He is being disruptive again and had even said, "screw you" to Beth before he edited (it was the post after Beth said "that's four words" if you can retrieve different levels of edits. He edited before the next reply.)



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01 Jan 2008, 3:24 am

I don't go in the three words at a time story.


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