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Off topic: In Italy they say Thread poster: lingomania
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"La traduzione deve essere pronta per l'altro ieri"
Literally: "The translation has to be ready for the day before yesterday". Does the same thing happen in your country?! Comments welcome!
Rob
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Jan Willem van Dormolen (X) 
Netherlands
Local time: 18:17
English to Dutch
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Oh, yes, the Dutch expression is: "Kan het gisteren klaar zijn?", that is: "Can you have it done by yesterday?".
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Rafa Lombardino
United States
Local time: 09:17
Member (2005)
English to Portuguese
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| É para ontem! | Apr 22, 2007 |
In Brazil, we would say it this way, "It's for yesterday."
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In Spanish we also say "para ayer"... I didn't know that this expression was so "universal", but apparently Italians are still the most pushed for time.
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| Es para ayer | Apr 22, 2007 |
Rafa Lombardino wrote:
In Brazil, we would say it this way, "It's for yesterday."
Same in Spanish.
Edit: I edited my mistake
[Edited at 2007-04-22 19:35]
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danya
Local time: 19:17
English to Russian
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| hate this phrase)) | Apr 22, 2007 |
in Russian when you ask "by when should this be done?" some people say "by yesterday"
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In Polish we say "na wczoraj" which means "for yesterday". It seems that translations are axpected to be done the same way all over the world.
JK
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Ivana Karanikic (X)
Croatia
Local time: 18:17
Italian to Croatian
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| And a bit of Croatian | Apr 22, 2007 |
In Croatia we say....'Trebalo bi biti gotovo za jučer' (in English, It should be finished for yesterday)
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| Seems Italian customers are more inpatient than others... | Apr 22, 2007 |
...by a full day: all other countries, so far, settle for a translation to be delivered yesterday, instead of two days ago.
[Edited at 2007-04-22 23:02]
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Melzie
Local time: 18:17
French to English
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| comme d'habitude (as usual) | Apr 22, 2007 |
c'est pour hier
It is heartening to know that it is not only my (French) clients who have really big time management problems!
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Juan Jacob
Mexico
Local time: 10:17
French to Spanish
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| As client says: | Apr 22, 2007 |
It was for yesterday, 6 P.M. AND WHY SO LATE!?
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Here in Latvia it depends on the customer. Quite often the translation either needs to be done vakar (yesterday) or aizvakar (the day before yesterday)
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lingomania
Local time: 02:17
Italian to English
TOPIC STARTER | I just knew it!! | Apr 23, 2007 |
I see that this "time bag" is quite universal!!! In Italy, time is $$$...just like in the USA...and it's getting worse every day. On another thread here, I said "I see translating as a MISSION".....now you know why!!!
Rob
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I think it is a rude thing to say to anyone providing a service. The translation is "I don't care about your schedule or work capacity or whatever, it's just MY job that matters". It irritates me a lot and whenever I hear it I say "Done, just give it to me the day before yesterday!"
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lingomania
Local time: 02:17
Italian to English
TOPIC STARTER
Mihaela BUFNILA wrote:
I think it is a rude thing to say to anyone providing a service. The translation is "I don't care about your schedule or work capacity or whatever, it's just MY job that matters". It irritates me a lot and whenever I hear it I say "Done, just give it to me the day before yesterday!"
I agree it's rude not to take anyone else's work into consideration like that and I agree 100% with your "translation" above, but like it or not, I'm afraid things will only get worse in our profession.
Rob
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