vendredi 25 mars
I know it's not an opportune time to be using the computer, what with relatives lurking in the background watching for any sign of covert electronics use, but it is so very good to be back at home. Happy Easter/Passover (delete as appropriate).
// posted by belle @ 9:03 PM
lundi7 mars
In the e-mailbox:
I'm translating "Belle de Jour" to Portuguese.
I'm having a few problems with the translation. Miss de Jour may have a
university degree but she likes to use slang ? english and londonese. Well,
my background is american and new yorker (I studied in London ages ago but
apparently forgot everyting). So, I'sending you, attached to this mail, a
word document with my problems. Hope you can help (or find somebody who can)
and I thank you very much for the trouble.
Yours
José
And here is what couldn't be translated:
Page 30 : lattechinos to go
Page 31 : chicklit
Hmm. I wonder what the future of the book is there if chicklit doesn't fly.
Page 40 : he was straitlaced as a whalebone corset
Page 40 : he was straitlaced as a whalebone corset
Page 48 : I'd rather see an inch to pinch than force someone to suck it in for an hour on the trot.
Page 60 : It was odd; I felt the cab turned up far too soon.
Page 68 : the first person to take a paddle to my behind
Page 78 : a rusting heap retrieved from a skip that lay crumpled outside the door.
Page 81 : miss getting pissed for less than a fiver
Page 96 : it passed when Charles Chaplin shrugged of his mortal coil.
Page 144 : Fiat, V reg, half a block down.
Page 107 : Anal sex is the new black.
Inexplicably not an internationally used phrase. How odd.
Page 113 : Remember you do have the odd man Friday
Page 114 : I like to think myself an excellent and carefully maintained plate
Plate? Did I really write that?
Page 115 : and then my ship will have truly come in.
Page 117 : I rub her through the hood and tongue her inner lips.
I don't even know where to begin. With an anatomy lesson, perhaps?
Page 121 : Greek diving-suit
Page 127 : imitating a stick-insect Freddie Mercury from Lowestoft has become the first entry on the list.
I'm not certain there is a translation for The Darkness. It's probably for the best.
Page151 : Dappy old bird
Page 163 : looked like a Goth PA
Page 167-68 : "in an age where the highest selling female artist worldwide can drunkenly trip down the aisle in jeans and a garter only to have the transaction annulled twenty-four hours later"
Who is the artist? To what situation was that?
Oddly enough I presumed the entire known universe was as enthralled with Mrs Federline (late Miss Spears) as we are. Clearly I was mistaken, and this insight gives me hope for the future of human culture.
Page 186 : why a ban on liplock?
Page 188 : bunny boiling is an adictive sport
Page 201 : And she's not likely to come round and cook your rabbit later.
Page 201 : I'm a high-maintenance plot, but hire my own groundsmen, as it were.
Page 209 : a few bubbes in Maimi.
Page 221 : to make that Neil Sedaka Tzedakah box
Page 240 : Oh, I don't half fancy a pint of IPA on a sunny afternoon.
Surely the bulk of the Potuguese tourist trade is fuelled by people wanting a beer in the sunshine?
Page 245 : I refuse to give him a nipple-twister
Do they not have nipples? Furthermore, do they not twist?
Page 259 : Short Asian girls with rosebuds who would stand almost in your armpit
Er, rosebuds. You know, rosebuds? As in flowers.
Page 284 : 'Oh you'll cave' N said to her.
Page 292 : 'Feels like holdups', he said. (they were)
// posted by belle @ 12:12 PM