Translation seminar: las groserías y los false friends

31 de mayo, 2016 — #92 mars

Groceries n  (food from store)… provisiones nfpl
comida nf
comestibles nmpl
ese jamoncito Serrano, ¿quién chingados lo compró?

Uso justo de todos los medios [Uso Justo de todos los Medios]… context follows.

Uso justo de todos los medios… context follows.

La-Riata-de-los_REITs

Beto y Billy: aventuras en los dominios del despojo… [context follows]. Bill Sanders según Bloomberg: http ://www .bloomberg .com /news /articles /1997-09-21 /the-new-world-of-real-estate

Synopsis:  un  magnate y  su yerno  cruzan  el puente  internacional  desde  la alcaldía en El Paso (Texas) hacía Ciudad Juárez con la intención de entrar al bar de  Don  Roberto  (La Cucaracha) en la primera cuadra de la  Avenida  Juárez. El discurso  de los especuladores  de los políticos se pierde en la traducción… hilarity ensues when they try to buy the next governor for the Chihuahua, a man that local banksters call: El Quique Serrano (jamoncito for to close friends).

Groserías  nf  (rudeness, coarseness)… tosquedad, falta de finura f
decir palabrotas vtr + nfpl
blasfemar vi
En ESPAÑA, una grosería es igual A SOLTAR TACOS,
nada que ver con LAS PATATAS BRAVAS
de don Humberto MOREIRA.


Relevant Breaking News

Collective bargaining (unions) have scored an unprecedented victory in the land of Trickle Down and Voodoo Economics… No word on the Lexmark strike —yet— that was happening on another sector of the NAFTA territories (the state of Chihuahua).

Uso justo de los medios… Labor strikes in France are all the rage right now, it seems that the spirit of collective bargaining has had a distant effect (why not?). The news for the Spaniards arrive from across The Atlantic, and it concerns  a workers’ strike against a telecom giant… For a moment there, i thought that the workers got the Bernie effect, then i looked to Socorro (TX) and rearranged the priorities of my disbelief: maybe it was just the Pope*.

* El Paso del Norte News:

Ringside to the 50 yard line [at] The Sun Bowl [context follows]… A political tale about D.D. Romo and the people who love to destroy the places where Pancho Villa [formally, Doroteo Arango] took a piss.

Ringside to the 50 yard line [at] The Sun Bowl [context follows]… Synopsis:  a political tale about D.D. Romo** and the politicians** who love to destroy the places where Pancho Villa [formally, Doroteo Arango] took a piss.

** David Dorado Romo vía Beto O’Rourke:

http ://webcache .googleusercontent .com /search?q =cache :Q-aMAsSdtSIJ :pasodels .ipower .com /news /why_care .html+&cd =1&hl =en&ct =clnk&gl =fr&client =firefox-b-ab

TimeStamp: 16h time-now CET


Fin de la primera parte… en Tijuana ya casi pega la media noche***. Ahora sí, a soñar con ese Sueño Americano:

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*** Pacific Standard Time:

TimeStamps for Peace. | Uso justo del tiempo y la fecha por los Interwebs.

TimeStamps for Peace. | Uso justo del tiempo y la fecha por los Interwebs.

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