🍹Early to RISA 🧉M to [email protected] • 7 months agoAnon experiences German humorsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square120fedilinkarrow-up1761
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink32•6 months agoOne translated from Norwegian: “Once upon a time… But now it’s a corridor” I’ll supply the original and an explanation: “Det var en gang… Men nå er det en korridor” “Det var en gang” is literally “It was a time/an instance”, and it’s the main way every fairytale starts in Norwegian. But “gang” could also mean hallway.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•6 months ago“Det var en gang” is better translated as “Once upon a time”.
minus-squareVindictiveJudgelinkfedilinkEnglish13•edit-26 months agoThey showed that with their first translation. The second, more literal, translation is to explain the pun.
One translated from Norwegian:
“Once upon a time… But now it’s a corridor”
I’ll supply the original and an explanation:
“Det var en gang… Men nå er det en korridor”
“Det var en gang” is literally “It was a time/an instance”, and it’s the main way every fairytale starts in Norwegian. But “gang” could also mean hallway.
“Det var en gang” is better translated as “Once upon a time”.
They showed that with their first translation. The second, more literal, translation is to explain the pun.