Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-24957984-20140724011436/@comment-24918243-20140725152417

WaveDivisionMultiplexer wrote:

ScrewYouDinkleberg wrote: And what do you mean with "Unneeded idioms"? Are you saying that writing with the language I want is useless? What no. I meant idioms that aren't common to both languages, because they come out awkward. D: That is very true. I remember not long ago, there was a page making fun of those. Specifically, Portuguese/English translations. I know most of you won't get this (after all that's the point) but I'm sure Dinkleberg will get a kick of some of these examples:

Skirt right out of here (Sai jah daqui)

Wrote, didn't read, stick ate. (Escreveu nao leu; pau comeu)

The cow went to the bog ( A vaca foi pro brejo)

Hot see; hot saw (Quem te viu; quem te veh)

I'm sure everyone who does not understand Portuguese are scratching your head right now, but those that do are probably ROFL. It also drives the point on how careful you have to be when translating stuff. I will never forget seeing on the official phone book for RJ, that the clod who translated it instead of translating "Parque", to the word "Park" used "Parking" instead. That caused some pretty humorous situations...

(sorry about the lack of accents, but the KB here at work is not set up for it).