Jan 15, 2005 06:50
19 yrs ago
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Bring it ON!
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The text of a videogame, named Waterfight, copied and pasted on an Excel file. No more context is provided.
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Description of Use in Game (Speed Chat Taunt Entry)
Text to be translated: Bring it on!
Thank you very much!
Clarisa
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Description of Use in Game (Speed Chat Taunt Entry)
Text to be translated: Bring it on!
Thank you very much!
Clarisa
Responses
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Charlie Bavington
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English
Hassle-free translations for busy people
Native in: English
Works in: French to English
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an explanation of a kind....
This expression is a response to a challenge or threat; the challenge or threat may be a real and genuine one (such as someone saying "do you want a fight?" to which one response is "bring it on" (i.e. "yes"!) ), or simply a perceived challenge/threat, or indeed an "implied" challenge such as is posed by a video game.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks! Charlie's explanation was exactly what I needed to understand the phrase! Alexander, thanks anyway! You also deserve the points!"
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Herman Vilella
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English
A lifetime of translations
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Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, English, and 1 more.
Venga, venga!
Muy coloquial, muy aplicable a diferentes situaciones.
+12
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Alexander Demyanov
Software Engineering background
Native in: Russian
Works in: English, Russian, Russian to English, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
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6
show me what you've got!
Means to challenge, to provoke, etc.
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Note added at 5 hrs 13 mins (2005-01-15 12:03:16 GMT)
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Richard:
Yes, \"bring it on\" requires a context giving an idea of what \"it\" refers too.
Likewise, \"bring them on\" requires a context for \"them\".
As movie title, \"Bring it on\" is used \"in isolation\", to borrow your expression. The movie story is the context.
In the case of Bush, he didn\'t just come out to the press, said \"Bring it on\" and retired to his quarters. He was *challenging* the insurgents: \"Come out, we are ready for you\".
In the case of a videogame, there is the game context.
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Note added at 5 hrs 32 mins (2005-01-15 12:22:18 GMT)
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Kerry, dusting off an old primary-campaign rallying cry, said that if the president, who served stateside during the war, wants to debate \"our service in Vietnam, here is my answer: \'Bring it on!\"
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Note added at 5 hrs 13 mins (2005-01-15 12:03:16 GMT)
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Richard:
Yes, \"bring it on\" requires a context giving an idea of what \"it\" refers too.
Likewise, \"bring them on\" requires a context for \"them\".
As movie title, \"Bring it on\" is used \"in isolation\", to borrow your expression. The movie story is the context.
In the case of Bush, he didn\'t just come out to the press, said \"Bring it on\" and retired to his quarters. He was *challenging* the insurgents: \"Come out, we are ready for you\".
In the case of a videogame, there is the game context.
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Note added at 5 hrs 32 mins (2005-01-15 12:22:18 GMT)
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Kerry, dusting off an old primary-campaign rallying cry, said that if the president, who served stateside during the war, wants to debate \"our service in Vietnam, here is my answer: \'Bring it on!\"
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Kurt Porter
: Made famous by President Bush...or should I say infamous? :)
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sihem bechlour
: get it!/ go ahead
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Anna Maria Augustine (X)
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Pawel Gromek
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Richard Benham
: Bush said "Bring 'em on!" "Bring it on!" doesn't mean a lot to me in isolation./[...] "Bring it on!" requires something implied to be brought on--it doesn't make sense alone. My research indicates that Bush said both....//"Them"=enemies, no detail needed.
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Thank you. http://www.cpod.ca/polls/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewItem&itemI... And so it goes.//More ppl heard "it".//The movie "Bring it on" supports my interpretation too. Apparently the phrase does make sense to ppl.//See "Note added" pls.
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Orla Ryan
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RHELLER
: he may have to apologize later :-)
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Thank you.
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Herman Vilella
: It's something like "Come out and fight!"
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Thank you.
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Charlie Bavington
: I quite like "show me what you've got" as an alternative phrase; however, I interpret it as a RESPONSE to a challenge, not a challenge in itself. The "it" is, then, the challenge that is being *responded to*, whatever that challenge may be.
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Thank you. Well, even if it is in response to a challenge, it is, in itself, a (counter)challenge, rather than a physical response to the 1st challenge.
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PB Trans
: it can be both... challenge and response.
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Thank you.
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Cilian O'Tuama
: sock it to me!
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Thank you!
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Rebecca Hendry
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Thank you!
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Java Cafe
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Thank you!
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Alfa Trans (X)
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Maria Danielson
: It's a common expression to mean show me what you've got, hit me with your best shot
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Jonathan MacKerron
Native in English
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English
Retired as of Jan 2019!
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English
Related KudoZ points
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4
let's get it on!
i.e., let's get the game going so I can thrash your butt..
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By the way, it wasn\'t Bush but Kerry who uttered these fateful words during his campaign, lot of good it did him
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Note added at 7 hrs 41 mins (2005-01-15 14:31:36 GMT)
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Bush used it to challenge the terrorists, Kerry used it to challange Bush
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Note added at 5 hrs 10 mins (2005-01-15 12:00:32 GMT)
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By the way, it wasn\'t Bush but Kerry who uttered these fateful words during his campaign, lot of good it did him
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Bush used it to challenge the terrorists, Kerry used it to challange Bush
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Richard Benham
: Kerry was referring to an earlier speech by Bush.
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he used it several times to intimate that he as ready for an electoral fight
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Mario Marcolin
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ok, you want to fight?, I am ready - a challange
let's get started, as a taunt
Discussion
BTW. Kerry said it regarding Vietnam! But I don't know its meaning.