Also, I think 'cutting the cheese' is slang for farting. Or something.
Yep, but I have no idea how that connection is made unless you have a smelly cheese that only smells when it's cut or something. I used it as an example because someone seemed to think they were clever for teaching how to say it in French, and I somehow doubt French of all languages would go well with that expression.
Usually my favorite example though is translating "you damn bastard" into Swedish. The Swedish equivalent term is the in English completely ridiculous "your devilish shitboot", but "you damn bastard" in Swedish doesn't sound so much better: "du förbannade oäkting". For some reason translating insults from English to Swedish makes it sound a lot more medieval and silly. We shall not even go into how ridiculous it gets with the f-word.
Russia totally has a theme song now.I was thinking that while posting, because damn, thinking of the lyrics it's a damn wonder they got away with it during the Cold War. Most of it is pretty communism-friendly (get rid
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3. Further proof that translation is far more complicated than people believe. Too bad not many people realize this.
6. Yeah, that kind of scares me, too. O_O I never listened to John Lennon before. And yeah, it definitively sounds like something straight out of Russia/communism when you think about it. I'm sure other things can apply to it as well, but this one is scary like that.
7. But see, that's why the 'War on Religion' exists. Because people find themselves incapable of treating others with respect. No one can enjoy anything anymore without someone getting offended about it all! >_< It's stupidity at it's finest!
8. ??? No eight? XD For the record, I'm completely out of it. I've had to correct so many words I've misspelled already.
Ah, I don't mind it as such. When I first saw the whole lyrics, prompting this part of my post, it was in the context of someone quoting them to show how important and fluffy-bunny-wonderful diversity is, which is what made it a lot more dystopic to me.
So really, it's the idiocy of people quoting songs they haven't understood the lyrics of that scares me the most. Which is, I'll admit, a pretty silly fear. The worst they can do to me is take Every step you take out of context.
I used to believe in the idea of a world government, with a huge amount of autonomy for the different countries and regions. (I've sort of ended up starting to deconstruct these ideas in this original work of mine, which I've gotten a weirder view of now since entering Hetalia.)
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YES, THIS SO MUCH. Another language can be like a whole other culture. It's way more complicated than just running stuff through GoogleTranslate.
Also, I think 'cutting the cheese' is slang for farting. Or something.
"I hope someday you'll join us.
And the world will be as one."
Wow. Russia totally has a theme song now. XD
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Yep, but I have no idea how that connection is made unless you have a smelly cheese that only smells when it's cut or something. I used it as an example because someone seemed to think they were clever for teaching how to say it in French, and I somehow doubt French of all languages would go well with that expression.
Usually my favorite example though is translating "you damn bastard" into Swedish. The Swedish equivalent term is the in English completely ridiculous "your devilish shitboot", but "you damn bastard" in Swedish doesn't sound so much better: "du förbannade oäkting". For some reason translating insults from English to Swedish makes it sound a lot more medieval and silly. We shall not even go into how ridiculous it gets with the f-word.
Russia totally has a theme song now.I was thinking that while posting, because damn, thinking of the lyrics it's a damn wonder they got away with it during the Cold War. Most of it is pretty communism-friendly (get rid ( ... )
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6. Yeah, that kind of scares me, too. O_O I never listened to John Lennon before. And yeah, it definitively sounds like something straight out of Russia/communism when you think about it. I'm sure other things can apply to it as well, but this one is scary like that.
7. But see, that's why the 'War on Religion' exists. Because people find themselves incapable of treating others with respect. No one can enjoy anything anymore without someone getting offended about it all! >_< It's stupidity at it's finest!
8. ??? No eight? XD For the record, I'm completely out of it. I've had to correct so many words I've misspelled already.
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So really, it's the idiocy of people quoting songs they haven't understood the lyrics of that scares me the most. Which is, I'll admit, a pretty silly fear. The worst they can do to me is take Every step you take out of context.
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*chuckles*
I used to believe in the idea of a world government, with a huge amount of autonomy for the different countries and regions. (I've sort of ended up starting to deconstruct these ideas in this original work of mine, which I've gotten a weirder view of now since entering Hetalia.)
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