So Luis...

[MuFu]

Do you actually know Speedy Gonzalez?

 

[PT]

 

[Luis G]

yeah.....he's my neighbour

 

[kuulani]

When can we meet him?

 

[MuFu]

Cool. So can you tell me what the fuck he is always bangin' on about?

Sounds like "underlay, underlay" - underlay is that stuff you put down before you lay a carpet isn't it?

 

[Luis G]

dude, it's been years since the last time a saw a speedy gonzalez cartoon

 

[Luis G]

i think he says "ándale ándale, epa epa, yeeeeejaaaa"

ándale has several meanings, i don't know in what context should i ranslate it, probly "c'mon".

 

[kuulani]

i thought he said something like, "andale, andale, ariba, ariba (sp?)" ... but what do I know?

 

[Luis G]

ohhhhhh yes, my mistake......

arriba = up or upside

 

[kuulani]

So he's saying "c'mon up"?

 

[Luis G]

so basically he says that, but.....that's the literal translation.....

*two brains*
will think of it later, is kinda difficult to translate sentences from colloquial spanish to english, somehow i have a brain that thinks purely in english, and another brain that thinks in spanish, the communication between both is not good

 

[kuulani]

I know what you mean!! That's like translating between Hawaiian and English.

 

[nalani]

so i ka confusing

 

[MuFu]

so basically he says that, but.....that's the literal translation.....

*two brains*
will think of it later, is kinda difficult to translate sentences from colloquial spanish to english, somehow i have a brain that thinks purely in english, and another brain that thinks in spanish, the communication between both is not good

Well thanks for trying anyway, mate.

 

[ris]

intersting you should say that about language, clive james [ozzie journo] speaks about 7 languages and says he relishes the moment when your brain stops translating the language into your native one. call it the moment of fluency or understanding if you will )

i had no idea it turns you into steve martin.... D

 

[MuFu]

intersting you should say that about language, clive james [ozzie journo] speaks about 7 languages and says he relishes the moment when your brain stops translating the language into your native one. call it the moment of fluency or understanding if you will

i had no idea it turns you into steve martin....

Clives James speaks 7 languages?! Dammit - I met him at the Goodwood Festival of Speed a couple of weekends back and didn't "try him out".

Maybe he would have known what Speedy Gonzalez was saying.

 

[kuulani]

I'm only fluent in 2 languages.