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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

siehste ist doch schön!

English translation:

You see, it's nice after all

Added to glossary by Kim Metzger
Mar 4, 2001 11:37
23 yrs ago
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German term

siehste ist doch schön! aber kein schwein interessiert das du alex wright heisst

German to English Social Sciences Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
alex wright is a wrestler
Proposed translations (English)
0 +1 You see, it's nice after all. But nobody's interested in the fact that your name is Alex Wright.
4 There you have it - it's not so bad. And nobody cares if your name is Alex Wright.
0 You see, its nice after all. But noone gives a dam about you being Alex Wright...
0 You see, it's alright after all; but nobody gives a damn about your name being Alex Wright.
0 Ye, that's fine, but no-one is going to be interested that your name is Alex Wright.
0 Well that's just fine - but noone gives a damn about you're name being Alex Wright.
0 See, ain't that nice? But there's no-one (here) who cares that your name's Alex Wright.

Proposed translations

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You see, it's nice after all. But nobody's interested in the fact that your name is Alex Wright.

I translated "kein Schwein" as nobody. A literal translation is "no pig." To capture the flavor, you could translate it as "not a soul."
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Ulrike Lieder (X)
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1 hr

You see, its nice after all. But noone gives a dam about you being Alex Wright...

I agree with the previous ansewr but I would say that the meaning of "kein schwein interessiert dass du Alex Wright heisst"
means that noone is interested about the fact the HE IS Alex Wright

So I would translate:
You see, its nice after all. But noone is interested in the fact that you are Alex Wright...

or

You see, its nice after all. But noone gives a dam about you being Alex Wright.

I think this captures better the spirit of the sentence in German...
Good luck!
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You see, it's alright after all; but nobody gives a damn about your name being Alex Wright.

I'm not sure that there is anythin nice about wrestling and can't find the word noone and I think that the point is, that Alex hasn't made a name for himself yet.

Just my interpretation.
HTH
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14 hrs

Ye, that's fine, but no-one is going to be interested that your name is Alex Wright.

I can think of no English equivalent for "kein Schwein".
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14 hrs

Well that's just fine - but noone gives a damn about you're name being Alex Wright.

Re. kein Schwein: No need to seek a word-for-word translation, the main thing is the tone, rendered via "gives a damn".
Re. doch: This is fairly certainly not "after all", but merely provides stress, "ist doch schön" being an indivisible phrase and probably meant ironically. Therefore the ironic "that's just fine".
Re. identity: My first impression was that the addressee bears the name of AW, but is not the wrestler himself. The proposed translation avoids being explicit about this.
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21 hrs

See, ain't that nice? But there's no-one (here) who cares that your name's Alex Wright.

Hi, I have the feeling that all the translations offered so far a quite complex in English - so I've been thinking if there's a way to make it simpler.

So how about:
See, ain't that nice? But there's no-one (here) who cares that your name's Alex Wright.

I put in "ain't" for the "siehste", which is actually a version of "Siehst du" - and I thought the translation should reflect this 'slang' version.

HTH
Sibyl
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my knowledge and some thinking :-)

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There you have it - it's not so bad. And nobody cares if your name is Alex Wright.

Compare with this:
"So there you have it – it’s not so bad here after all." https://www.ourbow.com/banish-the-blues-with-schadenfreude/
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