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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 11:51 am
by androl
http://www.meanwhale.com/images/cookie-cat.jpg
"Ich habe dir einen Keks gemacht... habe ihn aber gegesst"
"Je t'ai fait un biscuit... mais je l'ai mangi"
what's that in your language?
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 3:35 pm
by Jes
starcapitan wrote:I have a question about mobile phones :
I tried to connect to my home-banking via WAP vodafone ( wap.omnitel.it ) and a NOKIA 5300 GPRS and it didn't worked
I tried with a NOKIA E65 connecting with the WLAN Alice and it worked >> I also posted in the forum
Can somebody could explain me why ?
thanks
Mmm... sorry, I've got no idea. Modern devices are not my cup of tea...
By the way, "Je t'ai fait un biscuit... mais je l'ai mange" =

"
te he hecho un pastel... pero me lo he comido"

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:07 pm
by Gerlin
Jes wrote:
By the way, "Je t'ai fait un biscuit... mais je l'ai mange" =

"
te he hecho un pastel... pero me lo he comido"

Jes - I think Androl wrote mang
i, not mange on purpose (the German correct translation would have been gegessen, but he wrote 'gegesst' because of the 'eated' in the original...) but if you changed that in the Spanish translation too - forgive me - I don't know any Spanish...
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:10 pm
by androl
yes, that's correct, the cookie cat doesn't know proper grammar
probably...
te he hecho un pastel... pero me lo he comado
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:10 pm
by capitobi
Gerlin wrote:Jes wrote:
By the way, "Je t'ai fait un biscuit... mais je l'ai mange" =

"
te he hecho un pastel... pero me lo he comido"

Jes - I think Androl wrote mang
i, not mange on purpose (the German correct translation would have been gegessen, but he wrote 'gegesst' because of the 'eated' in the original...) but if you changed that in the Spanish translation too - forgive me - I don't know any Spanish...
Yep. The point is that the tense is nonsense.
For Spanish it could be maybe something like:
Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comicho. ...or... Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comió. ...or... Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comó.
Feel free to add better examples.
For Finnish I'd suggest:
Tein sinulle keksin, mutta olen söinyt sen jo.
Edit: Hmm. If one wanted to be precise, then the correctly wrong translated German version should rather be "...ich esste ihn aber schon", instead of "...habe ihn aber gegesst."
That changes the Finnish one to, erhm , well "...mutta syin sen jo." ?
Ok. I'll stop this.
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:35 am
by adameus23
capitobi wrote:Gerlin wrote:Jes wrote:
By the way, "Je t'ai fait un biscuit... mais je l'ai mange" =

"
te he hecho un pastel... pero me lo he comido"

Jes - I think Androl wrote mang
i, not mange on purpose (the German correct translation would have been gegessen, but he wrote 'gegesst' because of the 'eated' in the original...) but if you changed that in the Spanish translation too - forgive me - I don't know any Spanish...
Yep. The point is that the tense is nonsense.
For Spanish it could be maybe something like:
Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comicho. ...or... Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comió. ...or... Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comó.
Feel free to add better examples.
For Finnish I'd suggest:
Tein sinulle keksin, mutta olen söinyt sen jo.
Edit: Hmm. If one wanted to be precise, then the correctly wrong translated German version should rather be "...ich esste ihn aber schon", instead of "...habe ihn aber gegesst."
That changes the Finnish one to, erhm , well "...mutta syin sen jo." ?
Ok. I'll stop this.
If you would translate it wrong and literally to German, it would be "aber ich esste es"
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:50 am
by Jes
adameus23 wrote:capitobi wrote:Gerlin wrote:Jes wrote:
By the way, "Je t'ai fait un biscuit... mais je l'ai mange" =

"
te he hecho un pastel... pero me lo he comido"

Jes - I think Androl wrote mang
i, not mange on purpose (the German correct translation would have been gegessen, but he wrote 'gegesst' because of the 'eated' in the original...) but if you changed that in the Spanish translation too - forgive me - I don't know any Spanish...
Yep. The point is that the tense is nonsense.
For Spanish it could be maybe something like:
Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comicho. ...or... Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comió. ...or... Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comó.
Feel free to add better examples.
For Finnish I'd suggest:
Tein sinulle keksin, mutta olen söinyt sen jo.
Edit: Hmm. If one wanted to be precise, then the correctly wrong translated German version should rather be "...ich esste ihn aber schon", instead of "...habe ihn aber gegesst."
That changes the Finnish one to, erhm , well "...mutta syin sen jo." ?
Ok. I'll stop this.
If you would translate it wrong and literally to German, it would be "aber ich esste es"
OOPS!!!!

Now I understand it
Anyway... in Spanish... "eat" = "comer" is a
REGULAR verb... what a problem!!
HEY!! is there anywhere some Spanish people who is able to help me????!!!

Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 1:22 pm
by Dakkus
adameus23 wrote:capitobi wrote:Gerlin wrote:Jes wrote:
By the way, "Je t'ai fait un biscuit... mais je l'ai mange" =

"
te he hecho un pastel... pero me lo he comido"

Jes - I think Androl wrote mang
i, not mange on purpose (the German correct translation would have been gegessen, but he wrote 'gegesst' because of the 'eated' in the original...) but if you changed that in the Spanish translation too - forgive me - I don't know any Spanish...
Yep. The point is that the tense is nonsense.
For Spanish it could be maybe something like:
Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comicho. ...or... Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comió. ...or... Te he hecho un pastel, pero me lo he comó.
Feel free to add better examples.
For Finnish I'd suggest:
Tein sinulle keksin, mutta olen söinyt sen jo.
Edit: Hmm. If one wanted to be precise, then the correctly wrong translated German version should rather be "...ich esste ihn aber schon", instead of "...habe ihn aber gegesst."
That changes the Finnish one to, erhm , well "...mutta syin sen jo." ?
Ok. I'll stop this.
If you would translate it wrong and literally to German, it would be "aber ich esste es"
Important here is that German almost always replaces imperfect with perfect. Therefore, if you don't write it in perfect modus, you are actually increasing the amount of mistakes. Therefore, the original translation "gegesst" is closer to what is meant.
And my proposal for Finnish:
Leivoin sinulle keksin, mutta syömöin sen.
(or either one of the earlier two proposals which were both good.) However, I think "leivoin" ("I baked") is better than "tein" ("I made"), because while in English someone could really say "I made", I don't think anyone would use "tein" in Finnish while cooking just one piece of something as small as a cookie. Therefore, I think not changing the verb once again increases the amount of errors in the sentence.
Finnish having exactly zero irregular verbs/substantives/words, this is of course quite hard to translate.
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:27 pm
by adameus23
@Guest (hopefully you read this)
Why don't you want to join our community, if you have fun playing games in the off-topic-forum? I would be happy to welcome a new member

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:33 am
by Jes
adameus23 wrote:@Guest (hopefully you read this)
Why don't you want to join our community, if you have fun playing games in the off-topic-forum? I would be happy to welcome a new member

I also was a
Guest during a while, before joining here to the forum. I gess the Guest fear the spamming, fishing, cookies and all that stuff... I did so too, thus I first explored the forum, and then I joined to the EBT-forum and the EBT community

(after knowing that it was interesting enough and you were "kind" people to talk to

)
In fact, I visit very frecuently this forum and specially this section because this is one of my favourite sites in Internet, and you're one of the most "e-friendly" "e-firiends". (e-friend= electronic-friend or virtual friend although I think you're no virtual but real

)
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:20 pm
by adameus23
Nice to hear that, thanks
I joined the Forum after reading a lot about the crisis that occured at christmas... and after some weeks I found the Off-topic area and my number of posts began to raise quickly

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:28 pm
by Jes
adameus23 wrote:Nice to hear that, thanks
I joined the Forum after reading a lot about the crisis that occured at christmas... and after some weeks I found the Off-topic area and my number of posts began to raise quickly

Yeah! You did join almost a year later than me, and now you have almost 2 times more posts than me

(exaggerating a little...)
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:05 pm
by Ewri
Anyone seen LonaPo and Bivol here lately?
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:08 pm
by Gerlin
Ewri wrote:Anyone seen LonaPo and Bivol here lately?
hm ... no .. - I was also wondering
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:52 pm
by androl
Jes wrote:Anyway... in Spanish... "eat" = "comer" is a
REGULAR verb... what a problem!!
HEY!! is there anywhere some Spanish people who is able to help me????!!!

I thought about changing comer to comar -> lo he comado
Dakkus wrote:Finnish having exactly zero irregular verbs/substantives/words
I don't believe you, there are surely rules in the Finnish language that apply to exactly one word, and that is the same as an irregular word
the word "to be" for example has irregular forms