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Good 'translations'

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thatbags Tue 27-Jan-15 07:03:30

www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/misleading-translations-the-next-40-10001881.html wink

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vampirequeen Tue 27-Jan-15 07:57:48

grin

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hildajenniJ Tue 27-Jan-15 07:59:17

Thanks Bags. I've just had the best laugh, tears of mirth are rolling down my cheeks. You have set me up for the day.grin

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Nelliemoser Tue 27-Jan-15 08:12:52

I enjoyed that. I do think of these with the Latin which appears in various bits of religious choral music.
I need to have the time to write them down.

"Ex audi" I have just changed my car. No time now.

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Katek Tue 27-Jan-15 08:52:13

Magnum opus..,. Hahahahaha!!

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Riverwalk Tue 27-Jan-15 09:30:06

Bossa Nova grin

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absent Tue 27-Jan-15 10:29:15

J'y suis and j'y reste – I'm Swiss and I'm staying the night?

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loopylou Tue 27-Jan-15 11:11:41

Lederhosen and Mardi Gras! grin

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Versavisa Tue 27-Jan-15 14:33:09

I'm attracting a lot of attention here as I'm laughing out loud as each brilliant mistranslation is followed by another. Delicious. My sort of humour. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

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janerowena Tue 27-Jan-15 15:15:51

Et lux perpetua - every time I sing it I think of it as my own private prayer. Only my version is 'keep me in perpetual luxury'. The alternative is 'keep me in soap forever'.

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annodomini Tue 27-Jan-15 15:57:48

hoi polloi: We could never rid our mum of the belief that this meant 'the great and the good', instead of the opposite!

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