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[GHARIB]

Movie that's so bad it's Good. 

Translation : Un nanar. 

 

Exemple:

 

Edited July 24, 2021 by GHARIB

[DeKing]

Nanarland  

[Smultronstallet]

Hello guys!

 

I need help with a proper translation of this quote from Le Mariage de Figaro: 

On pense à moi pour une place, mais par malheur j’y étais propre: il fallait un calculateur, ce fut un danseur qui l’obtint

 

Its the epigraph of The Miernik Dossier by Charles McCarry, a novel that I recently finished.

 

Thanks in advance  

[Eazy]

2 hours ago, Smultronstallet said:

Hello guys!

 

I need help with a proper translation of this quote from Le Mariage de Figaro: 

On pense à moi pour une place, mais par malheur j’y étais propre: il fallait un calculateur, ce fut un danseur qui l’obtint

 

Its the epigraph of The Miernik Dossier by Charles McCarry, a novel that I recently finished.

 

Thanks in advance  

Theses sentences make no sense to me , unless it s poetry or in specific context but here it is .

 

Translation:  they think of me for a place ,  but unfortunatly i was there clean : you would need a calculator , it s a dancer who got it . 

 

 

[Eazy]

Ok, i went and read the whole part . 

 

 

Translation in context : 

 

They think of me for a place , but it wasn t the place for me to be (as he didnt felt it was a place for him) .  You need someone who calculate every move, every word and every articles . It s a dancer who got the job ( he says a dancer as someone who will tell the words people want to hear and write what they want him tr write ) . 

 

Does it make sense to you @Smultronstallet?  1700 poetry , french was very different from what it is now days haha

Edited December 6, 2021 by Eazy

[Smultronstallet]

10 hours ago, Eazy said:

They think of me for a place , but it wasn t the place for me to be (as he didnt felt it was a place for him) .  You need someone who calculate every move, every word and every articles . It s a dancer who got the job ( he says a dancer as someone who will tell the words people want to hear and write what they want him tr write ) . 

Thank you very much Eazy! It makes totally sense now. Its the perfect summary of tradecraft and the perfect opening for Charles McCarry's Paul Christopher novels

 

Edited December 6, 2021 by Smultronstallet

[Eazy]

18 minutes ago, Smultronstallet said:

Thank you very much Eazy! It makes totally sense now. Its the perfect summary of tradecraft and the perfect opening for Charles McCarry's Paul Christopher novels

 

That s interesting ,  for the translation i went and read the original version of Pierre Beaumarchais from  1784 .   I was like "daamn" smull making some weird lecture haha

[GHARIB]

10 hours ago, Eazy said:

They think of me for a place , but it wasn t the place for me to be (as he didnt felt it was a place for him) .  You need someone who calculate every move, every word and every articles . It s a dancer who got the job ( he says a dancer as someone who will tell the words people want to hear and write what they want him tr write ) . 

 

Good analyze!

 

Beaumarchais wants to underline here the absurdity of the society which rather bring to the fore the appearance over the competence.

 

[LazyHippo]

Hey frenchy  fellas, how bad is "zut"? I see in online dictionaries its just like "damn it", but im no sure its that way, I always doubt a bit on this online translations.

[Cross Marian]

41 minutes ago, LazyHippo said:

Hey frenchy  fellas, how bad is "zut"? I see in online dictionaries its just like "damn it", but im no sure its that way, I always doubt a bit on this online translations.

 

It's really not bad. It's a polite/childish way of saying "damn".

 

If I had to put it in English, the closest thing would probably be "darn" or "blast".

 

>> polite version:  "zut" meaning "darn it"

>> not polite version: "merde" meaning "damn it"

 

Edited February 24, 2022 by Cross Marian

[Zanda]

Un français prêt à aider ici aussi ! \ o 
Si vous avez des questions concernant l'orthographe ou la grammaire, je suis plutôt bon sur ça ^^ !
Bon et après la traduction aussi mais je pense que l'on est suffisamment nombreux et apte à ça 😛 !

"A french ready to help here too ! \o
If you have any questions regarding the spelling or grammar, I'm rather good at this ^^!
And after, traduction too, but I think we are plenty and able enough for that 😛 !"
 

[fado]

Hello la Team FR, présent également si besoin

[Paul Elton]

What the heck he's saying ?!

[Zanda]

I have... No clue. Even being french myself : He speaks too fast...And not clearly on top of that ! x) 

[GHARIB]

Mddddrrrr

"joumoulessoul , joumoulecoul" 

 

A part ça j'ai rien capté 😂