Comments on: Mission Impossible I http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/mission-impossible-i/ ideas on translation... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:02:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Untranslatable words | yndigo http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/mission-impossible-i/#comment-3257 Untranslatable words | yndigo Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:47:56 +0000 http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/?p=76#comment-3257 [...] lists of these, such as the Mirror.co.uk. Transubstantiation, a blog I follow, covers the topic here and here. Read more of his posts and you’ll see how deeply he gets into the notion of the [...] [...] lists of these, such as the Mirror.co.uk. Transubstantiation, a blog I follow, covers the topic here and here. Read more of his posts and you’ll see how deeply he gets into the notion of the [...]

]]> By: transubstantiation http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/mission-impossible-i/#comment-3224 transubstantiation Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:37:47 +0000 http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/?p=76#comment-3224 The English word for it is a multi-plug (2-, 3- or 4-way etc): http://www.maplin.co.uk/family_free_delivery/Multi-Plug.htm Also, worth looking at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_AC_power_plugs_and_sockets The English word for it is a multi-plug (2-, 3- or 4-way etc):
http://www.maplin.co.uk/family_free_delivery/Multi-Plug.htm

Also, worth looking at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_AC_power_plugs_and_sockets

]]> By: Pavel http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/mission-impossible-i/#comment-3223 Pavel Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:11:06 +0000 http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/?p=76#comment-3223 "an electrical plug adapter that allows more than one plug to be plugged into the same socket" Why it is untranslatable? I'm sure they mean this: http://www.wifi-shop.cz/obchod/rozdvojka-220v/ (sorry I don't know the english word for it) “an electrical plug adapter that allows more than one plug to be plugged into the same socket”
Why it is untranslatable? I’m sure they mean this:
http://www.wifi-shop.cz/obchod/rozdvojka-220v/
(sorry I don’t know the english word for it)

]]> By: transubstantiation http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/mission-impossible-i/#comment-3123 transubstantiation Tue, 13 May 2008 06:43:41 +0000 http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/?p=76#comment-3123 Thank you. Thank you.

]]> By: Transpanish http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/mission-impossible-i/#comment-3122 Transpanish Tue, 13 May 2008 00:48:59 +0000 http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/?p=76#comment-3122 Hi! excellent post! Hi! excellent post!

]]> By: Deshawnvk http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/mission-impossible-i/#comment-2945 Deshawnvk Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:42:30 +0000 http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/?p=76#comment-2945 favorited this one, brother favorited this one, brother

]]> By: transubstantiation http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/mission-impossible-i/#comment-2939 transubstantiation Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:54:00 +0000 http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/?p=76#comment-2939 Justine: Wonderful! Justine: Wonderful!

]]> By: Justine http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/mission-impossible-i/#comment-2938 Justine Sat, 15 Mar 2008 19:35:43 +0000 http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/?p=76#comment-2938 Apparently Spanish uses the same word for Arabic's "harami"... we use "ladrón" - also meaning <i>thief</i> - for the same type of electrical outlet multiplier. Apparently Spanish uses the same word for Arabic’s “harami”… we use “ladrón” - also meaning thief - for the same type of electrical outlet multiplier.

]]> By: transubstantiation http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/mission-impossible-i/#comment-2937 transubstantiation Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:37:06 +0000 http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/?p=76#comment-2937 Jimbo: "dhurna" is a particularly fine word. Jimbo: “dhurna” is a particularly fine word.

]]> By: Jimbo http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/mission-impossible-i/#comment-2936 Jimbo Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:23:15 +0000 http://transubstantiation.wordpress.com/?p=76#comment-2936 Essential book for lovers of such curiosities; 'The meaning of Tingo', by Adam Jacot de Boinod (Penguin Books, 2005), collecting all those weird words which don't have ready equivalents in English. Includes: koshatnik (Russian); a dealer in stolen cats fucha (Polish <-- really??); to use company time and resources for one's own purposes pu'ukaula (Hawaiian); to set up one's wife as a stake in gambling dhurna ('Anglo-Indian'); extorting payment by sitting at the debtor's door and staying there without food, threatening violence until your demands are met :D Essential book for lovers of such curiosities; ‘The meaning of Tingo’, by Adam Jacot de Boinod (Penguin Books, 2005), collecting all those weird words which don’t have ready equivalents in English. Includes:

koshatnik (Russian); a dealer in stolen cats
fucha (Polish <– really??); to use company time and resources for one’s own purposes
pu’ukaula (Hawaiian); to set up one’s wife as a stake in gambling
dhurna (’Anglo-Indian’); extorting payment by sitting at the debtor’s door and staying there without food, threatening violence until your demands are met

:D

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