Oct 23, 2006 13:13
17 yrs ago
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German term
Anastasia Sierra (X)
Bleib gesund bis 3 Kirschen wiegen 1 Pfund
German to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Is there any English equivalent to this phrase?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +7 | autograph album verse |
sylvie malich (X)
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| 4 +2 | May your shadow never grow less |
Jack Doughty
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| 3 | Stay healthy until the sees run dry |
lindaellen (X)
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Proposed translations
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34 mins
Selected
autograph album verse
"As long as grapes grow on a vine, you'll always be a friend of mine."
"May your life be like spaghetti: long and full of dough."
"Yours till the butter flies."
"Yours til Niagra Falls."
"May your life be like a fried egg , sunnyside up."
"Life is one darn fool after another.
Love is two darn fools after each other."
etc.
"May your life be like spaghetti: long and full of dough."
"Yours till the butter flies."
"Yours til Niagra Falls."
"May your life be like a fried egg , sunnyside up."
"Life is one darn fool after another.
Love is two darn fools after each other."
etc.
Peer comment(s):
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Nicole Schnell
: Beautiful. Each line. I'll never forgive the moving co. which lost the box containing my elementary school Poesie-Album, grrr...
32 mins
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I feel for ya, I really do...
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Rebecca Garber
1 hr
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thx!
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Julia Lipeles
2 hrs
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thx!
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Ingeborg Gowans (X)
: hilarious - my Poesie Album is in German unfortunately, but I prize it,too as a "historice document"
3 hrs
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I wish I still had my autograph album, another favourite: "I oughta cry, I oughta laugh, I oughta sign my autograph"
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Darin Fitzpatrick
5 hrs
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Lancashireman
: Very good, Sylvie. There's more than one way to skin a cat.
7 hrs
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thx, Andrew.
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Stephen Reader
: With all this & with Darin's note @ Anastasia (could even need a lit. trans.). Nicole, from one who 'can't let go' easily, looked in that dusty box under the bed/in the loft/the 'sort later' pile?...
1 day 21 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you, Sylvie!"
+2
23 mins
Jack Doughty
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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Translator since 1953
Native in: English
Works in: Russian to English, German to English, English
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May your shadow never grow less
Najmeh
"May your shadow never grow less" (may you remain healthy) and "May your nose grow fat" (may you become prosperous), she wished us when our four weeks’ ...
www.talesmag.com/tales/road/najmeh.html
This is a fairly well-known saying, but less often used nowadays, when many people wish that their shadow would grow less!
"May your shadow never grow less" (may you remain healthy) and "May your nose grow fat" (may you become prosperous), she wished us when our four weeks’ ...
www.talesmag.com/tales/road/najmeh.html
This is a fairly well-known saying, but less often used nowadays, when many people wish that their shadow would grow less!
Peer comment(s):
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Harald Pigall
11 mins
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Thank you.
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Maudarg (X)
52 mins
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Thank you.
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Nicole Schnell
: I love it, but is it appropriate for little girls, age 6 - 9?
1 hr
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I don't see why not, they would probably take it as a bit of a joke.
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32 mins
Stay healthy until the sees run dry
Obviously not a direct translation, but in the context of an album, it means "stay well - forever" i.e. until something impossible happens, such as 3 cherries weighing one pound or in my example - 'til the sees run dry (which would make sense to an Eng. speaker, whereas I had to stop and think about the 3 cherries.
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Note added at 34 mins (2006-10-23 13:47:54 GMT)
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change sees to seas!!!
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Note added at 34 mins (2006-10-23 13:47:54 GMT)
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change sees to seas!!!
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