Re: Translating titles for films

Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
>
> _Duro_ de matar?  I thought that duro only meant hard in the sense of
> "not soft".  I wonder if that is an influence from English?
The phrase "duro de" + infinitive is a common idiom.
It probably spread a bit more after the movie, but
there were already two equivalent expressions for things
that were hard to do or people that were hard to beat:
"(un hueso) duro de pelar" and "(un hueso) duro de roer".

"Duro" meaning "difi'cil" is used sometimes for very
specific psychological tasks, like adapting oneself to
a change: "Es duro vivir asi'" = It's hard to live like that,
etc. It has a connotation of being "difficult for one's
feelings, hard to accept".


--Pablo Flores

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