NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/alt/fan/pratchet/3234

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Path: sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!chx400!rediris.es!tahat!boole!sisemilio
Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
Subject: Re: lots o' questions&annotations for Mort
Message-ID: <1992Nov18.133006.1@boole>
From: sisemilio@boole
Date: 18 Nov 92 13:30:05 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Mark Thompson) writes:
> [e-mail] (Leo Breebaart) writes:
> :
> : >     Where various characters say "Ole", and somebody replies "With milk?":
> : >
> : >     Ole is spanish for "Ta Da" (basically), and Au Lait if French for
> : > "With milk", as in Cafe au lait. They are pronounced the same way (o lay).
> :
> : This has the same problem as the steam engine annotation. Translating
> : dog-Latin is one thing, because Terry can perfectly well say that he
> : intends that to be understood by people who don't know Latin, but this
> : is simply not always the case. But explaining the blindingly obvious
> : au lait pun is something that I just couldn't set myself down to do,
> : so far.
> :
>
>     Whoa - There are a lot of people out there that don't know a single
> word of Spanish or French (Most Non-Europeans, and quite a few English people,
> for example), so why not include it? After all, I thought the Split-screen
> morris minor annotation was dead obvious.
>
>     Sorry if the rest of the references were crap, but there we go.
>
> --
    Well i actualy read the translation in Spanish of the Pratchet,s books,
and i think that in Usa there are lots of peoples whom has the minimum of Int
to understand a word in spanish or in French!!!




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