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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 17 of 39 19 December 2008 at 5:47am | IP Logged | ||
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[ES] Sí. Es "Exterminado".
[IT] L'indicazione del nome dell'autore è anche una famosa strada di Budapest. [Questo è corretto?] Edited by DaraghM on 19 December 2008 at 5:50am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FrancescoP Octoglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5950 days ago 169 posts - 258 votes Speaks: Italian*, French, English, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Norwegian Studies: Georgian, Japanese, Croatian, Greek | Message 18 of 39 19 December 2008 at 7:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Italiano assolutamente perfetto, complimenti!
As for the Hungarian quiz, I suspect that by saying Petőfi Sándor I'd have 99 chances on 100 to get it right...hummm... That's the asnwer to a lot of Hungarian questions after all... ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 19 of 39 19 December 2008 at 9:02am | IP Logged | ||
[IT] Sì. Che sia corretto. E 'anche lezione 31 in ungherese Assimil. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FrancescoP Octoglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5950 days ago 169 posts - 258 votes Speaks: Italian*, French, English, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Norwegian Studies: Georgian, Japanese, Croatian, Greek | Message 20 of 39 19 December 2008 at 9:30am | IP Logged | ||
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This will be either difficult or easy according to habitual tastes in TV shows. Who scored a memorable quote by addressing two badly beaten-up people with a glorious
"Hey, chumps, I heard you were on the ass-end of an ass-kicking"? (Excuse the French, it's really a funny line...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Satoshi Diglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5823 days ago 215 posts - 224 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Japanese | Message 21 of 39 19 December 2008 at 11:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Is it Futurama? I am not sure...
Alright, my turn: "As armas e os barões assinalados Que da Ocidental praia Lusitana, Por mares nunca dantes navegados Passaram ainda além da Taprobana, Em perigos e guerras esforçados Mais do que prometia a força humana E entre gente remota edificaram Novo Reino, que tanto sublimaram" Very, very famous portuguese quote (both to the american and the european lusophones). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FrancescoP Octoglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5950 days ago 169 posts - 258 votes Speaks: Italian*, French, English, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Norwegian Studies: Georgian, Japanese, Croatian, Greek | Message 22 of 39 20 December 2008 at 1:06am | IP Logged | ||
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That's the Portuguese national epic "Os Lusíadas", by Luís Vaz de Camões. I have a two-volume Italian edition with bilingual text that I've been wanting to read for ages, but sadly I never had the time to run through it to serious extents. Now this remembers me, perhaps this would be the right Xmas... Thank you for bringing this up.
And yes, the previous line was from a Futurama episode, I see it as the quintessence of Bender's sublime eloquence (best scripted character in ages, if you ask me) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Satoshi Diglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5823 days ago 215 posts - 224 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Japanese | Message 23 of 39 20 December 2008 at 2:39am | IP Logged | ||
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FrancescoP, if you want to read it, believe me, you are way beyond most portuguese-speakers there are.
I have never met anyone who'd even want to read it. Obviously that is not a very serious flaw, since the text is extremely complex and archaic. I myself didn't finish it (but I plan to) because I was too busy doing school stuff. -- Well, if you let me be a little diplomatic, I once read a bilingual edition of Dante's Divine Comedy (portuguese-italian), and it was great! The only thing that makes me sad is the lots of historical and regional knowledge you must have to read them (both Os Lusíadas and Divina Comédia). Thank goodness there were footnotes every two pages or so (also on both books). --- Another one, if I may, and a easy one: "Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden [...]" Edited by Satoshi on 20 December 2008 at 2:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FrancescoP Octoglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5950 days ago 169 posts - 258 votes Speaks: Italian*, French, English, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Norwegian Studies: Georgian, Japanese, Croatian, Greek | Message 24 of 39 20 December 2008 at 3:54am | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry for chipping in all the time today, but I'm home alone with a flu and I don't have much work to do around Xmas :)
I'll leave the last one to somebody else, I don't want to stifle the game with my annoying overposting. I'll just say that the title of the poem is the same as the monicker of a (once) great English gothic metal band... As for Dante, rest assured: no native can read it without footnotes. I have read it over countless times and it's still challenging as hell, especially the Paradise cantica (pun not intended). Our school editions usually have 4/5 verses per page and the rest is footnotes, and it's hardly enough. Some of the most obscure allusions are still undecyphered... I you even wish to re-read some of it, pick up an Italian edition for schools: it's very rewarding to see a whole world crawl back to life between the lines. I hope my Lusiadas have a good commentary... As for the thing itself, it's enough to say a thing like "archaic Portuguese" to me to turn me on... That's how perverse I am! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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