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Difficulty with English translation
« on: January 22, 2010, 03:05:17 AM »
I was trying to translate some Swedish poetry of the great Onkel Kånkel to English but I have difficulty with this one: "Korv tränger fram". "Korv" is "sausage" in Swedish. In this case it's a turd however, because the Swedish word for "turd" is "bajskorv" - "poop sausage" or "skitkorv" - "shit sausage".

"Tränger fram" would usually translate into "pushes forwards", but it doesn't feel right. "Erupts" doesn't feel right either.  :-\
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Re: Difficulty with English translation
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2010, 07:09:32 AM »
Mmmmmm poop sausage  :lol:
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Re: Difficulty with English translation
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2010, 07:28:30 AM »
Funny, isn't it?  :P
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Re: Difficulty with English translation
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2010, 08:17:21 AM »
Farrrkkk hang about til you get some Aussie lingo in your noggin you won't know which end is up and feel like a right drongo. Stone the Crows if you think some souped up Swedish banter will pull the wool over yer eyes then hit the toe and sink some middies of VB  at the rub a dub dub until you would give a rat's arse what some yobbo wrote or how it sounds. Tackle it in the morrow after the hair of the dog and she'll be apples. You won't give a yazoo as to the outcome and people will view your typing as dinkum and staunch.
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Re: Difficulty with English translation
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2010, 09:57:20 AM »
Silly foreigner, unaware of our traditions.  If there isn't an English equivalent, just create and start using an anglicised version of it and it'll turn up in English dictionaries eventually, possibly violating a few grammatical rules in the process and creating one more headache for dyslexics and anyone trying to learn or teach English.
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Re: Difficulty with English translation
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2010, 10:00:27 AM »
What do you say when a turd cames out of the arsehole in English, except "shitting", of course? "Korv tränger fram" is simply brilliant.
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Re: Difficulty with English translation
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2010, 11:31:26 AM »
Quote from: TheoK on January 22, 2010, 10:00:27 AM
What do you say when a turd cames out of the arsehole in English, except "shitting", of course? "Korv tränger fram" is simply brilliant.

You say "I like porn that has korvtrangerfram", or "korfram" or something like that, and keep using it until people figure out what you mean and add it to their vocabularies.  English is the Borg of languages; other languages will be assimilated and their distinctiveness added to it's own.
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Re: Difficulty with English translation
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2010, 08:07:32 PM »
@Les: Bloody oath mate!

@Peter: Borg  :plus:
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Re: Difficulty with English translation
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2010, 02:03:37 AM »
Quote from: SleepyDragon on January 22, 2010, 08:07:32 PM
@Les: Bloody oath mate!

@Peter: Borg  :plus:
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