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#10704 11/21/00 05:35 PM
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The ex portantino of an English hospital, cinquantaduenne, participates today occasionally in film of science fiction of serious Zs and to telefilm. You/he/she has had a small I rotate (as watch of the body of Hotblack Desiato) in the television reduction of the Guide Galattica for the Hitchhikers.


Thanks Shanks. That make it all perfectly clear. I, for one, always like to know where my towel is.



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I just looked behind my computer tower (where all of the dust-bunnies and Snickers wrappers go to live) and found a small, hard-to-read label which says "Another fine product of the Sirrius Cybernetics Corporation."


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and found a small, hard-to-read label which says "Another fine product of the Sirrius Cybernetics Corporation."

I would complain about the supererogatory "r" inserted into "Sirius" - but you would probably just RESPOND WITH, "GO STICK YOUR HEAD IN A PIG"



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The true problem in that translation was that there was a mistake ( a misprinting) in the original text:
"Ha avuto un piccolo ruoto (come guardia del corpo di Hotblack Desiato) "

It has to be:
"Ha avuto un piccolo ruolo (come guardia del corpo di Hotblack Desiato) "

It means
He played a small part ( as the body guard of HD ).

Is it OK now?
Ciao
Emanuela


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Emanuela

I'm not sure whether to thank you for the clarification, or to deplore the fact that, now it is clear, it doesn't sound as wonderfully surreal as it did. Any chance we could trouble you for a decent rendition of the entire paragraph?


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Shanks, I can try to give " a decent rendition", even if it is clear - even in this simple case - that it will require a lot of explanations - I don't think that a translation software can take into account of the whole context...
So
That man - who was before working in an English Hospital as "portantino" ( see below)- 52 years old - works today sometimes in science fiction movies of "serie Z" (see below) and in telefilms (?? I don’t know if this is an English noun, we use this as "movie for TV") . He played a small part ( as the body guard of Hotblack Desiato) in a TV movie based on the ...

Portantino ( from portare , to bring) works carrying people who cannot walk by themselves
Something of Serie Z: the worst kind of that - since footbaal games are organized in
Serie A (the best)
Serie B ( just below)
and so on...
Serie Z does not exist, but it suggests that you cannot find anything worst...

Boring explanation, and - I imagine - no longer surreal charme at all!
Ciao
Emanuela



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So Serie A - like the English Premier League or First Division - is not exclusive to football?

And at least it was interesting inasmuch as I finally figured out that the paragraph was not about Hotblack Desiato, but about an actor (which actor?) playing him.

Thanks for that.


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The actor wasn't playing Hotblack, but Hotblack's bodyguard (probably not a major role from what I can remember).

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Jackie, have you been to the Louisville museum to see the new Cezanne?

According to this morning's news, it is Java where you have to go to get "new" Cezannes - and Utrillos, Chagalls and Goyas. A large stash of famous paintings are on sale, purporting to have been bought from old plantation houses in Indonesia (or some such) and all of them genuine, of course.
Perhaps Bingley has a line on this?

My point is, of course, that there is not (I sincerely hope) a "new" Cezanne being displayed in Louisville - just their latest acquisition of an old one





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The auction was supposed to include works by Picasso, Renoir, and van Gogh, which had been stashed away carefully when the Japanese invaded in the Second World War and had now reappeared, plus works by various Indonesian artists. As some of the works alleged to have vanished are now in European and American museums it didn't take too long for people to realise there might be less to these works that met the eye. The auction has now been cancelled.

Follow this url for The Jakarta Post's account (in English):
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20001125.@02&irec=1

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