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| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6922 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 4 13 February 2012 at 4:31pm | IP Logged |
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On last week's premiere of the television show "The River", the crew was exploring the Amazon. With them was a Spanish monolingual speaker (of course, everyone knows that people in Brazil speak Spanish - insert sarcastic tone here). Most of her dialogue was translated by her father and the rest subtitled in English. At one point in the program, they wanted to go to a certain place in the Amazon and she said in Spanish that they should not go there. When they asked why, she responded what sounded like "es bota". The English subtitles read "It's [Untranslatable]". Does this word mean anything (it's forbidden, it's cursed, it's haunted) or is this just something invented by the show?
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| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5348 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 2 of 4 14 February 2012 at 3:39pm | IP Logged |
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Es bota isn't used here as far as I know. Perhaps it is a colloquialism from her region?
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| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6922 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 4 15 February 2012 at 3:23pm | IP Logged |
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There is a discussion about this on Hulu (scroll to comments at the bottom). You can also view the episode:
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| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6922 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 4 20 February 2012 at 3:31pm | IP Logged |
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Update: Someone on Hulu suggested that since the way the show is designed, "We're supposed to be watching reality show footage, after the editing and footage has all been spliced together. Untranslatable just means the fictional producers couldn't make out what she said." That makes sense in the context.
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