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Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

Etiqueta - Etiquette/label - pun with these two words

English translation:

etiquette - a ticket

Added to glossary by Elvira Alves Barry
Dec 4, 2007 09:51
16 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

Etiqueta - Etiquette/label - pun with these two words

Portuguese to English Art/Literary Idioms / Maxims / Sayings Subtitlting
'Essa é uma aula de etiqueta!' - etiquette

'Ah! Etiqueta da roupa a gente arranca porque arranha o pescoço, né não?' - clothing label


How should I should this?


Thanks in advance!
Proposed translations (English)
3 etiquette - a ticket
1 label/libel
Change log

Dec 5, 2007 20:00: Elvira Alves Barry Created KOG entry

Discussion

Raquel Bragança (asker) Dec 5, 2007:
Footnotes I can't use footnotes, as it's for subtitling! Thanks for all your answers! They helped me a lot!
lexical Dec 4, 2007:
I really think this cannot be done - puns are the most impossible things to translate, for linguistic and cultural reasons. The best you can do is to add a lomg translator's note explaining the pun in the source language and declining to translate it.
Amy Duncan (X) Dec 4, 2007:
You might have to put an explanation in a footnote.
Amy Duncan (X) Dec 4, 2007:
To find a pun for this in English I think would be very difficult, if not impossible, because the word "etiquette" here means "manners" and there is no word for "tag" or "label" that has anything to do with manners, as far as I know.
Amy Duncan (X) Dec 4, 2007:
Hi Rachel...this is really tough. The word "etiquette" used to mean "label," "tag," etc., but is now obsolete. I
Paula Vaz-Carreiro Dec 4, 2007:
Sorry Raquel, but could you clarify the question please? What is it that you want? What is the context?

Proposed translations

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etiquette - a ticket

Just a suggestion. I'm thinking of the ticket you get when you drop off your clothes at the dry cleaners - the one that always scratches you when you forget to take it off.

"This is a class on etiquette."

"Ah, a ticket on your clothes that you pull off because it's scratching your neck, right?"
Note from asker:
After some research I found that ticket can mean clothing label. So i used that! Thanks!
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label/libel

A única coisa que consigo pensar seria:
'Ah! Etiqueta da roupa a gente arranca porque arranha o pescoço, né não?'
A pessoa estaria se desculpando por não ter a etiqueta mostrando a roupa de 'marca famosa' que está usando.
Então, numa analogia bem doida, bem disparatada, bem sem pé nem cabeça, apenas tentando manter o 'pun' (geralmente intraduzível) eu diria:
"Oh, I ripped off the label because it could cause me a libel"

Sugestão de doido. Don't quote me, PLEASE!

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Note added at 1 hr (2007-12-04 11:09:54 GMT)
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Ah, entendi! A primeira pessoa diz que é uma aula de etiqueta e a segunda pensa que se está a falar da etiqueta da roupa.
Note from asker:
Se fosse essa a situação, estaria bem, mas a segunda personagem é ignorante e pensa mesmo que se está a falar de roupa.
Mas muito obrigada :)
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