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| | | | | | Susanna Martoni 
Italy
Local time: 08:19
Member (2009)
Spanish to Italian
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| Pasta forever? | Aug 7, 2022 |
(I understand and I agree.)
So, my last and demanding job seemed something like:
strozzapreti con funghi, speck, piselli e panna
A kind of maccheroni, but with a richer flavour, and not hollow shaped (literally: priest-stranglers, so good) with mushrooms, speck from Alto Adige region, pees and cream.
It was a good job (here, strozzapreti are perfect), mushrooms smell and taste good and they actually represent my client's good communication, spe... See more (I understand and I agree.)
So, my last and demanding job seemed something like:
strozzapreti con funghi, speck, piselli e panna
A kind of maccheroni, but with a richer flavour, and not hollow shaped (literally: priest-stranglers, so good) with mushrooms, speck from Alto Adige region, pees and cream.
It was a good job (here, strozzapreti are perfect), mushrooms smell and taste good and they actually represent my client's good communication, speck is a bit tasty and a pleasant job is also spicy and demanding, pees tend to mitigate moods, and then cream.
Uh, it is a perfect dressing when you like the job and would like to keep it at a positive level of flavour for body and soul. Creamy.
Metaphors we live by
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like a stem of camomilla in a flower bowl on the dinner table while waiting for good spezzatino al sugo
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:19
Member (2008)
Italian to English
Susanna Martoni wrote:
.....with mushrooms, speck from Alto Adige region, pees and cream.
pees = pisciate (alcune)
Io stasera preparo un sugo di tonno, pomodori freschi, capperi, olive nere, e un peperoncino solo. Ottimo con qualsiasi tipo di pasta, ma meglio con gli spaghetti (rigorosamente De Cecco).
Later this evening I'm planning to make a sauce of tuna, fresh tomatoes, capers, black olives, and a single chilli pepper. Good with any type of pasta but best with spaghetti (strictly De Cecco).
[Edited at 2022-08-07 12:34 GMT]
| | | | danya
Local time: 09:19
English to Russian
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tiny and tasteless, you need a heap of them to make any sense
| | | | Susanna Martoni
Italy
Local time: 08:19
Member (2009)
Spanish to Italian
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Tom in London wrote: Susanna Martoni wrote:
.....with mushrooms, speck from Alto Adige region, pees and cream.
pees = pisciate (alcune) Io stasera preparo un sugo di tonno, pomodori freschi, capperi, olive nere, e un peperoncino solo. Ottimo con qualsiasi tipo di pasta, ma meglio con gli spaghetti (rigorosamente De Cecco). Later this evening I'm planning to make a sauce of tuna, fresh tomatoes, capers, black olives, and a single chilli pepper. Good with any type of pasta but best with spaghetti (strictly De Cecco). [Edited at 2022-08-07 12:34 GMT]
Argg. They were peas.
Bravo!
| | | | Peter Simon
Netherlands
Local time: 08:19
English to Hungarian
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This is complete nonsense to me. I like Italian but said kinds are all boring, just like my last piece of a job. My new fav Italian is spaghetti aglio e olio (excellent!), but my favourite meals come from India (or Sechuan). Anyway, back to that nonsense of a question: it´s like the adage in my mother tongue: if my grandmother had had wheels, she would have been a tram...
[Edited at 2022-08-07 21:29 GMT]
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| Look before you ... | Aug 8, 2022 |
Leaping spaghetti. It rises from the plate and strangles you where you sit.
(I suppose that's the typo, as "heaping spaghetti" makes no sense.)
| | | | | Macaroni cheese | Aug 8, 2022 |
English that's better than the original
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Peter Simon wrote:
This is complete nonsense to me. I like Italian but said kinds are all boring, just like my last piece of a job. My new fav Italian is spaghetti aglio e olio (excellent!), but my favourite meals come from India (or Sechuan). Anyway, back to that nonsense of a question: it´s like the adage in my mother tongue: if my grandmother had had wheels, she would have been a tram...
[Edited at 2022-08-07 21:29 GMT]
I am Italian but I agree.
Se mia nonna avessere le route sarebbe una bicicletta (translation of your adage)
| | | | Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:19
Member (2008)
Italian to English
...una cariola (a wheelbarrow - maybe they only say that in Florence)
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Tom in London wrote:
...una cariola (a wheelbarrow - maybe they only say that in Florence)
una carriola ...
| | | | Kay Denney
France
Local time: 08:19
French to English
It was a pasta dish ordered by walk-ins just as the chef was about to hang up his hat, in that it was an information leaflet/signs for tourists on the Atlantic coast. Usually I translate that sort of stuff in April or May. I suppose they wanted to check whether any foreigners would actually come before having it translated, given the fiascos of the last two years.
| | | | MollyRose
United States
Local time: 01:19
English to Spanish
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| interpret the question | Aug 8, 2022 |
This makes no sense. Is the poll supposedly for someone whose last job ever as a chef is to make a pasta? If so, "would have been" is not the correct verb tense. Or does it mean "If the last thing you did recently was to make a pasta, it would have been ..."?
Or is it supposed to be comparing the last translation you did with some sort of pasta?
I see that many of the polls are still ambiguous. I wonder if they do that on purpose!
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