Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
I didn't get an ***expletive*** bean/cent!
English answer:
damned or frigging
Added to glossary by
Jenni Lukac (X)
Jun 21, 2010 21:09
14 yrs ago
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English term
Specialist in Civil Law & Contracts
Native in: English
Works in: Russian to English, English, Ukrainian to English
I didn't get an ***expletive*** bean/cent!
English
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I need a moderately vulgar answer in US English suitable for subtitles. My instructions are "do not edit out expletives unnecessarily".
In UK English, it would be
"Apart from my wages, I didn't get a sodding/f-ing bean"/"I got bugger all"
This comes originally from Russian (не хрена не вижу), but it's my colloquial American that's slipping!
In UK English, it would be
"Apart from my wages, I didn't get a sodding/f-ing bean"/"I got bugger all"
This comes originally from Russian (не хрена не вижу), but it's my colloquial American that's slipping!
Responses
| 4 +9 | damned or frigging |
Jenni Lukac (X)
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Change log
Jun 23, 2010 18:47: Jenni Lukac (X) Created KOG entry
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damned or frigging
Of course you can go all the way to G-damned or fucking but I don't know that it's worth it as it is impled. I hope I've spelling "frigging" correctly!
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Note added at 5 mins (2010-06-21 21:15:20 GMT)
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whoops "spelled" - so frigging worried about the spelling of "frigging" I made a mistake!
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Note added at 5 mins (2010-06-21 21:15:20 GMT)
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whoops "spelled" - so frigging worried about the spelling of "frigging" I made a mistake!
Peer comment(s):
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Mark Nathan
: friggin'
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Thanks Mark. It sounds more natural that way!
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Suzan Hamer
: and with Mark...
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Thanks Suzan.
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Patricia Rosas
: great answer! and I looked it up--spelled correctly!
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Thanks Patricia. There are readability rules in subtitling. I don't know which spelling is instantly more readable to a movie-going public.
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Filippe Vasconcellos de Freitas Guimarães
: Don't know a word of Russian so I can't speak for the equivalence, but they're definitely both great choices.
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Thanks fvasconcellos.
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Taña Dalglish
: And other variations seem to be quite popular of late. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100129181129AA... Have a good week, Jenni.
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Cheers and thanks Taña. I'll bone up on them when I've finished my current project.
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Judith Hehir
: Both good
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Good morning and thanks, Judth.
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Carolyn Gille
: friggin'
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Cheers and thanks, Carolyn.
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Deborah Hoffman
: friggin', same idea of substitution for a word with same first letter :)
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Thanks, Deborah. Yes, the prolonged f really helps one blow off steam and get the point across.
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Rolf Keiser
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Thanks, Rolf. This gives me kick. I write "damned or frigging" and 9 distinguished colleagues write to say which they prefer. There's a conceptual beauty in it.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "I settled for goddam! Thanks for all the suggestions."
Discussion
I think the usual euphemistic collocation would be "one red cent/not one red cent".