karsov@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · edit-22 years agoDo you have a cat?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1583arrow-down140file-text
arrow-up1543arrow-down1imageDo you have a cat?lemmy.worldkarsov@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · edit-22 years agomessage-square42fedilinkfile-text
English Translation: Cat: Do you have a cat? Girl: No. Cat: Now you have one! Girl: And that’s how I got a cat.
minus-squaremrfriki@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·2 years agoI’m Spaniard and it sounds weird in Spanish, so much that I thought it was some auto translation bot. The humor is still there and it’s easy to get eve it is sounds weird.
minus-squareCashewNut 🏴@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·2 years agoYo visito Barcelona en 2008 y (como se dice “stayed”) en Hostel Urbany. Yo me gusto mucho y amo gelato!
minus-squareOhmsLawn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoAlright, now I’m curious. I was responding from the perspective of an English speaker who reads and understands Spanish. What do you find strange in the Spanish version? How would you express these lines more naturally?
I’m Spaniard and it sounds weird in Spanish, so much that I thought it was some auto translation bot. The humor is still there and it’s easy to get eve it is sounds weird.
Yo visito Barcelona en 2008 y (como se dice “stayed”) en Hostel Urbany.
Yo me gusto mucho y amo gelato!
Alright, now I’m curious. I was responding from the perspective of an English speaker who reads and understands Spanish.
What do you find strange in the Spanish version? How would you express these lines more naturally?