We have some strange fault-finders on goanet, with nothing of their
own to contribute! It is easy to cast stones!
I am glad my friends J. Loiola Pereira and Jorge Abreu are a redeeming
feature.
One could continue to question any good translation! A free translation of
spoken" type could produce many variants.
I would retain my translation as it is, excepting an extra "s" (in
*devias*) and extra "seja" in the last line (see below in square brackets).
These had been deleted in my private message to Fredrick, but somehow
remained on the draft that went to goanet.
For me, "hundred times, or thousand times" continue to mean "as many times..
", and Loiola Pereira's (cem vezes) or Jorge Abreu's (mil vezes) are as good
as my "tantas vezes que for necessário".
Teotonio R. de Souza
Frederick Noronha wrote on March 04, in a response to Paulo Colaco Dias:
>
> I say again -- instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle. It's easy
> to poke fun at Teotonio. At least he took the trouble of giving us a
> translation of what was sought.
Jorge Abreu Noronha wrote:
Fred,
I hope you don't mind if I disagree with you. I think it all depends on the
way you look at things. In my opinion Paulo did not poke fun at Teotonio,
but just wished to tell Teotonio that his Portuguese translation was faulty
and some one else had to intervene to correct it. You did receive later a
good Portuguese translation from J. Loiola Pereira, though I might add
that in Portuguese we don't usually use the expression "a hundred times"
("cem vezes") but "a thousand times" or "thousands of times" ("mil vezes" or
"milhares de vezes"); or, even if you wanted to maintain "a hundred times",
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Fred wrote:
Could some kind soul give me a spoken translation (not a literal one) of
the following lines into Portuguese? I'd be grateful. Thanks! FN
--
Teotonio R. de Souza wrote:
"Ramesh, it is all your fault. You shouldn't have married that woman. She
was a bad wife and a lousy mother. And now, Tara is growing up to be just
like her."
>Ramesh, é inteiramente culpa sua. Não devia[s] ter casado com aquela mulher
>Ela era uma má esposa e uma mãe inútil. Tara está agora a crescer
>exactamente como ela.
"Please don't say that, mother."
>Por favor mãe, não diga isso.
"I will say it a hundred times- Tara is just like her mother."
>Direi tantas vezes que [seja] for necessário – Tara é tal e qual a sua
mãe
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