YOU COULDN'T MAKE THIS UP. I had to post this. Here's what Google Translate made of my post yesterday about Welshcakes Limoncello's little doggie Simi. After reading this I had to alter the word Ampel, which I was told meant flower pot, but actually means a kind of hanging basket ~ though, as the translator correctly identified, the normal meaning of that word is traffic light!HERE is the dog of my friend Welshcakes Limoncello in Sicily, the Simi (short for Simon) is called. This stretches the fluffy teddy bear after a tiring Pelzschnitt. His coat is pure gold reingesponnenes, is not it? Maybe if Welshcakes planting the scrap into a traffic light, not a gold tree would grow from this?? Now barking Simi: woof woof-tootle-complain-i-coo-i-bone-knocking. She says: please come and tell you how beautiful I am! Here is the link.
(Simi speaks English, Italian and French and, of course, Doggie, but no German ...)
And this is the original English translated into German.
Dies ist mein Freund WELSHCAKES 'Dog SIMI wobei eine Pause nach einem anstrengenden Fell geschnitten. Ist sie nicht der süßeste kleine trotterdonkey du je gesehen hast? Ihr Fell ist aus reinem Gold gesponnen. Ich hoffe, Welshkcakes hält die Stecklinge. Vielleicht, wenn du sie pflanzen, werden sie in eine Gold-Baum wachsen ...Nun ist Simi mich Bellen: Woof Woof-groany-bone--a-doodle. Sie sagt: Kommen Sie vorbei und lassen Sie mir eine Nachricht zu erzählen, wie schön ich bin, ist der Link hier.
If you compare both languges, you'll note they aren't direct translations. I wanted to see how Simi's barking onomatapoeia came across. I had to scan the German dictionary specifically for rhymes, which the translator dealt with rather well. In English-German, as you can see, it gave up all together and shoved the English woofs straight through!
AREN'T THESE SIMI PICTURES AMAZING? Did you ever see such golden fur? And who says doggies can't smile?! If you're wondering what breed she is, btw, Simi is a Porkshire cross...
Was für phantastische Simi-Bilder, nicht wahr? Habt ihr jemals solche goldene Fell gesehen? Wer sagt, dass Hündchen nicht lächeln können? Falls fragt Ihr euch, Simi ist Yorkshire Terrier-Mischling.
Simon, du bist wunderschön und so richtig zum lieb haben. Viele Grüße sendet dir und dein Frauchen Inge
ReplyDeleteWhat a muffin!
ReplyDelete:-)
ReplyDeleteHere is my message to Simi:
Meine Meldung an Simi
Simi tu sei il cane più bello d 'oro del mondo.
Ich hoffe, das ist recht!
I hope that's right ;-)
I speak no Italian but I'd guess it actually goes like this:
ReplyDeleteIch spreche keine Italienisch, aber ich wurde ahnen es geht so:
Simi tu sei il cane d'oro più bello del mondo.
Haha! The google translation gave both Simi and me a good laugh! I'm always telling my students that electronic translators are crap and this proves it. Thank you for featuring us again. Your Ital's right, Gleds. And thanks to all your kind commenters above. Love, woofs and kissies from Simi and me. xx woof!
ReplyDeleteHi Pat (I feel strange calling you Pat and not Welshcakes...)
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you're welcome, isn't Simi the most gorgeous, beautiful little golden trotterdonkey
that's one reason i wanted a norwich terrier ~ they're the same type of size and colour as Simi
as Flapper would say to that: coooo!
ps I thought their Italian word order sounded wrong; but i sill don't get why there's a tu in there? Simi tu sei... doesn't that mean "Simi you know"...? or something %-/...{}
google translate is only good I think as a dictionary, but you need to sort the grammar yourself. even my terrible tangled German grammar is better than Google's!
Ein ganz "goldiger" Hund. Man muß ihn liebhaben.
ReplyDeleteLiebe Grüße
Irmi
Ihr Gesicht erinnert mich an "Fuzzypeg", der Igel aus ein Kinderbuch...
ReplyDeletehi gled,
ReplyDeleteno, honestly, i never really thought you're mad... i just wanted to get you up a little bit.
it just hurts me to see someone (nice) getting through what you're getting through.
today i was very busy, i couln't get much into the blogs.
obviously, i was pretty lucky to get good help years ago in germany.
on top of treatment i was away in a clinic for 8 weeks and later on for 6 weeks. it was a 24-7 treatment. but i wasn't that bad as you are now.
i'm thinking a lot about you... but in a nice way.
i really wish you feel better soon.
by the way... simi is realy so cute.
hi is a cuttly-cutie!
keep it up, hey...
ela
Cheers Ela!
ReplyDeleteI went to rehab twice in one year. Both times I was out the door within a couple of days. That is a pathetic track record but it's one of the things that led to my not trusting myself or my motives. I never used to be that kind of feckless person. I used to decide to do things and do them. Since heroin I just haven't had the will... that is my bigget problem.
Meanwhile I've decided not to rush about blatherinig how I so want to stop, I think it's better to go on and save my energy till I'm ready to commit it ~ does that make sense?
Simi is one of the most beautiful li'l doggies I've seen... she is a girl though!
The Google translation in hilarious ! I laughed my head off, I had to read the english text to understand the German google !!
ReplyDeleteI like the way it translated Simi's German barking into English:
ReplyDeleteNow barking Simi: woof woof-tootle-complain-i-coo-i-bone-knocking.
hello gled,
ReplyDeletethat makes absolutely sence!
that is the only way it could possibly work.
when you are ready!
i'm glad you're thinking that way, it shows that you haven't given up yet.
have a great day!
ela
HI Ela... yeah you're right. I'm glad you understand though. Sometimes people have thought I blogged about my problems as a cry for help, which it isn't meant to be. The answer to most of it has to come from me and that's why I despair!
ReplyDeletexx
Simi is really cute. I hope that you get a dog.
ReplyDeleteDo you see why I wanted a Norwich terrier? They're golden, too :-)
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