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lucca
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...cool, adică!
| | | | Mihai Badea (X) 
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Romania
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Cineva l-a postat pe o listă de traducători (preluat de pe Net).
Let's face it -- English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant
nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England
or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies
while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted.
But ... See more Cineva l-a postat pe o listă de traducători (preluat de pe Net).
Let's face it -- English is a crazy language.
There is no egg in eggplant
nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England
or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies
while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted.
But if we explore it's paradoxes, we find that
quicksand can work slowly,
boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither
from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but
fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce
and hammers don't ham? If the plural of
tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of
booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one
moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make
amends but not one amend, that you comb
through annals of history but not a
single annal? If you have a bunch of
odds and ends and get rid of all but one
of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers
praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables,
what does a humanitarian eat? If you
wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?
Sometimes I think all the English
speakers should be committed to an
asylum for the verbally insane. In what
language do people recite at a play and
play at a recital? Ship by truck and
send cargo by ship? Have noses that run
and feet that smell? Park on driveways
and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance
be the same, while a wise man and a wise
guy are opposites? How can overlook and
oversee be opposites, while quite a lot
and quite a few are alike? How can the
weather be hot as hell one day and cold
as hell another?
Have you noticed that we talk about
certain things only when they are absent?
Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or
a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or
experienced requited love? Have you ever
run into someone who was combobulated,
gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where
are all those people who ARE spring
chickens or who would ACTUALLY hurt a fly?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy
of a language in which your house can
burn up as it burns down, in which you
fill in a form by filling it out and in
which an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not
computers, and it reflects the
creativity of the human race (which, of
course, isn't a race at all). That is
why, when the stars are out, they are
visible, but when the lights are out,
they are invisible. And why, when I wind
up my watch, I start it, but when I wind
up this essay, I end it. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Mihai Badea (X)
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| Când se stinge lumina / Igor Cobileanski | Aug 27, 2006 |
Este şi o fază simpatică de interpretariat.
Când se stinge lumina
[Edited at 2006-08-27 21:02]
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lucca
Romania
Local time: 10:40
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Lucia, aş mai adauga un item, de care nu par să fie conştienţi nici vorbitorii nativi de engleză.
În engleză, creştere/scădere în greutate se spune weight gain/loss.
Deci, modificările greutăţii corpului sunt privite în termeni de câştig/pierdere!
Nu-i de mirare că americanii (dar nu numai ei) se îngraşă văzând cu ochii. Nici lor nu le place să "piardă".
| | | | | Nu înţeleg gluma cu proofreaderii | Sep 10, 2006 |
Aş vrea şi eu să înţeleg
| | | | lucca
Romania
Local time: 10:40
English to Romanian
| Bump, nu bmup. | Sep 10, 2006 |
Reliefurile alea de pe carosabil, ca să nu mergi prea repede cu maşina în anumite zone. În ţările civilizate, sunt semnalizate şi în scris.
Şi mie mi-a luat un timp.
| | | | | Nice one, ha, ha! | Sep 10, 2006 |
Dar... culmea culmilor este că acum o săptămână a fost o întrebare KudoZ pentru "speed bump", şi creierul meu obosit nu a reuşit să facă legătura!
Thx, Lucian
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Romania
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| A mai fost, dar merită :) | Sep 14, 2006 |
Interpreta asta e tare de tot
| | | | | m-am băgat ca musca-n lapte | Sep 14, 2006 |
voiam să vă atrag atenţia că e acelaşi link postat de Mihai mai sus şi am relizat că v-aţi dat seama şi singuri
postare fără valoare aşadar
[Editat la 2006-09-14 20:54]
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