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Thread poster: Ivan Petryshyn
Ivan Petryshyn
Ivan Petryshyn
English to Italian
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Jun 27, 2007

One of the most difficult tasks for a translator is to render the meaning and the spirit of such gems of Folklore as proverbs.
I would not like to repeat and to review all known to every translator axiomas, I would prefer to better illustrate how it can be done with a created proverb:

Ukrainian: Yake dilo, takyy striy.

Polish: Jake dzialanie, take ubranie.

Russian: Kakaya plata, takoye platye.

Bulg.: ? Rabota preporechva belezhki. ?
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One of the most difficult tasks for a translator is to render the meaning and the spirit of such gems of Folklore as proverbs.
I would not like to repeat and to review all known to every translator axiomas, I would prefer to better illustrate how it can be done with a created proverb:

Ukrainian: Yake dilo, takyy striy.

Polish: Jake dzialanie, take ubranie.

Russian: Kakaya plata, takoye platye.

Bulg.: ? Rabota preporechva belezhki. ?

Comme le travail, comme les costumes.

Come il lavoro, cosi' il vestito.

Die Arbeit diktat die Anzuge.

Darba diktat apgierbs.

How would you play with proverb? ▲ Collapse
 
lingomania
lingomania
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Italian to English
Just inventing Jun 27, 2007

"Like work like dress"
 
Roomy Naqvy
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India
Local time: 11:28
English to Hindi
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Chinua Achebe Jun 27, 2007

If you see Chinua Achebe's novels, especially Things Fall Apart, you would find many.... such as Yam is Father, Earth is Mother.

Roomy
 


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