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Hi,
Read this morning in MedPageToday's, KevinMD.com :
“I laughed so hard, tears ran down my leg.”
I laughed loudly, but I also find this sentence very poetic and, even, with a touch of surrealism.
I know that this thread could also be classified in the "Medical" forum, but I wanted to share such a funny thing with all of you.
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Germaine Canada Local time: 02:09 Member (2005) English to French + ...
and sometimes, the other world...
Jan 30
Just read this one:
Un exercice sur les slogans et les accroches en publicité confronte les jeunes publicitaires aux différences stylistiques et culturelles du message publicitaire en leur faisant prendre conscience du résultat, inacceptable ou souvent incompréhensible, d’une traduction mot à mot... L’exemple de la traduction du slogan Fly Lufthansa you won’t believe your eyes par la phrase « Volez Lufthansa vous n’en reviendrez pas »** est à cet effet très éloquent. De même que le lancement raté d’une boisson gazeuse française affublée du nom de Jizz sur le marché américain. http://asp.revues.org/1518#ftn4
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