*sus mercedes*
English translation: your worships
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| 02:40 Oct 12, 2006 |
| Spanish to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Novel in Mex Spanish | |||||
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|  Selected response from: Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.) Spain Local time: 08:48 | ||||
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| 5 | your highnesses |
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| 5 | your ladyships/lordships |
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| 4 | Your Honors, Your Excellencies |
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| 4 | your worships |
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Your Honors, Your Excellencies Explanation: Your Honor se usa en los EEUU para jueces y alcaldes y cosas por el estilo; en otros lugares se usa Your excellency, para por ejemplo embajadores; usualmente he traducido dependiendo del texto a Su Merced. |
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22 mins confidence:
your highnesses Explanation: An option. Here it is used in a similar snide way: Damn it's hard to figure out your policies. They seem to be post-rational. ... Of course, if they don't have JOBS that PAY then they wouldn't be able to do that but I guess that is a pedestrian concern to your highnesses. And another: hen the liberal Supreme Court told President Bush he couldn’t torture terrorists, he didn’t let that stop him. The Democrats, however, would have just said, “yes, your highnesses” and smoked some marihuana while terrorists ran rampant ... Reference: http://popsci.typepad.com/popsci/2006/09/a_risk_to_natio.htm... Reference: http://shelleytherepublican.com/ |
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1 hr confidence:
your ladyships/lordships Explanation: The formal mode of address in modern Spanish, usted, sometime abbreviated to Ud. or Vd., is in fact a shortened version of vuestra merced, which means literally "your honour". The expression "su merced" is still used in parts of Latin America as the way of saying "you" to a stranger (for example, in the countryside area around Bogotá, Colombia). In Cervantes' time this was the everyday way of addressing a stranger politely, and for this reason you should NOT translate it here as "your honour", which would sound forced and stilted. Nor should you try and use archaic forms of English (e.g., thee or thou), since your task is to translate the text into current, not mock-Elizabethan, English. You will however, need to catch the comic, exaggerated, nature of this dialogue. Reference: http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~egk10/trans/Cervantes-hints.html |
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your worships Explanation: ¡Qué mejor libro que la traducción oficial de "El Quijote"....! Don Quixote - Book 1 Chapter [email protected]ut I take all the blame upon myself for never having told your worships of my ... Mas yo me tengo la culpa de todo, que no avisé a vuestras mercedes de los ... everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=818001 - 44k - Cached - Similar pages Ediciones bilingües: Don Quijote de la Mancha - [ Translate this page ]-Que me maten, señores, si el autor deste libro que vuesas mercedes tienen ... "May I die, sirs, if the author of this book your worships have got has any ... aaswebsv.aas.duke.edu/celestina/EDICIONES-BILINGUES/INGLES/DQ-2-59.HTM - 44k - Cached - Similar pages [ More results from aaswebsv.aas.duke.edu ] 6.5.1. Características - [ Translate this page ]Section I. ¿Porqué [sic] no quieren Ustedes [or vuestras mercedes]......... For-what not will ye [ your worships]............ Variations. 1. ¿Qué quieren? ... elies.rediris.es/elies20/cap651.html - 41k - Cached - Similar pages JSTOR: De Obra Y Palabra: Patterns of Insults in Mexico, 1750-185690v, and also "les (wives) conviene ser subjectas a sus maridos al que les ... was ruder: "Vuestra mercedes (Your worships) should come in or go to hell. ... links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-1615(199804)54%3A4%3C511%3ADOYPPO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-E - Similar pages |
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