Re: THEORY: questions
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 12:35 |
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At 11:37 2001-10-26 +0000, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:47:48 +0200
> > From: Dungeonmaster <dungeonmaster@...>
> >
> > > En réponse à Elliott Lash <AL260@...>:
> > > > "It's raining cats and dogs" (something you couldnt really say in
> > > > Silindion, but I'll translate it anyway)
> > >
> > > In French, we say: "il pleut des cordes" (it's raining ropes).
> >
> > Ok, as we are comparing anyway, in dutch it is:
> >
> > "Het regent pijpestelen"
> >
> > or in translation: "it's raining stems/shanks of pipes"
>
>Danish has "det regner skomagerdrenge." That means shoemakers'
>apprentices --- one guess is that it's because they were often seen
>skipping along the road.
>
>It really seems that each language has its own expression for this, so
>it would probably be "more realistic" to come up with an original
>phrase for a conlang instead of translating cats and dogs.
Swedish has "Det regnar småspik" -- i.e. small nails -- but we also have
the expression "Regnet står som spön i backen" -- 'the rain stands like
rods in the ground'.
/BP 8^)>
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