Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:31:13 03/16/99
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On March 16, 1999 at 13:03:33, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>Hey boys:
>Sure I understand the need to talk in a common language, of course. An english
>is that common language today, like it or not. But even then if you post once in
>20 times a post in spanish about trivia to share with other spanish speakers
>boys that fact does not violates the principle of common language. I can ensure
>you nobody in the spanish side has ever used our pretty, sharp, unimitable
>language to confound moderators or to blame nopbody. Just silly jokes that only
>can be expresed in spanish. That's the reason translations are not possible.
>Have you ever tried to translate a joke?
>By example this, originally created in spanish:
>A 20 years old boy say to his father that he is a gay and he expects
>understanding...
>-¿Gay?
>-Yes father, a gay
>-OK, let us see: do you have a golden Rolex?
>-No, father
>-Do you have a Ferrari?
>-Nope...
>-Do you have a 60 feets boat?
>-no
>- Then you are not a "gay" but a little bastard homosexual....!!!
>
>You cannot imagine how funny this joke is when you use the spanish words for
>those categories. I do not know if it works in english. I wait your opinions...
Yeah, I like this one. :)
Even for a french reader it is quite funny.
And the reason you should add an english translation when you post a spanish
joke is that I hate to see people laughing without being able to understand why.
I'd prefer laugh with them!
And I hate people reminding me that I don't speak spanish. When I see the number
of beautiful hot girls that can only speak spanish, I want to bang my head on a
wall: why did I choose english and german in school???? Why didn't I choose
english and spanish??? :)
Christophe
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