Plus par souhait de dire voilà ce que je souhaiterai que....
English translation: By which I mean something more like, 'Here is how I would like you to be,' ...
| 19:05 Mar 13, 2004 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Tourism & Travel / hotel industry | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Douglas Hayes Local time: 05:18 | ||||||
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peer agreement (net): +1| Plus par souhait de dire voilà ce que je souhaiterai que.... I would like us (our hotel) to represent human values Explanation: Values: what I wish we would be/represent, more than.... we are human, so we say it (out loud) he is not very eloquent - trying to say (I think) that he wants his hotels to embody human values (honesty, friendship) |
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peer agreement (net): +1| Plus par souhait de dire voilà ce que je souhaiterai que.... By which I mean something more like, 'Here is how I would like you to be,' ... Explanation: ... rather than, 'we're only human, or so they tell me.' I'm interpolating quotation marks (singles, since it's a quote with in a quote) and other punctuation and guessing that 'souhaiterais' was wrongly transcribed as 'souhaiterai'. It seems as though the manager is elaborating on what he just said about being human by vocation. He is speaking of the human person as an ideal, not of being merely human (i.e., making excuses for mistakes). -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 37 mins (2004-03-13 19:42:21 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- or, better yet: \'Here is how I would like us to be,\' ... |
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| Plus par souhait de dire voilà ce que je souhaiterai que.... rather by wish to say "here is what I wish we were " than Explanation: rather by wish to say "here is what I wish we were" than we are human "so we say it". All my life I have given priority to human relationships, to honesty, to simple values. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs 22 mins (2004-03-13 22:27:07 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Rather as a way of saying ... sounds more coloquial |
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