Comments on: Methods of translating words from English to Spanish

By: StongRadd

StongRadd — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:33:27 +0000

I’m in the white section: I don’t really bother because it’s not American.

You’ll read this comment and be very offended by it.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:21:51 +0000

It’s funny that I talk both languages, none of them is my native language (it’s Portuguese, actually) and I don’t find either of them simmilar.
I have classes on all 3 of them in school and I assure you they’re all different.
«I have a brown dog» – English.
«Yo tengo un perro marrón» – Spanish.
«Eu tenho um cão castanho» – Portuguese.

By: Orly

Orly — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:54:24 +0000

M’agrada el català

By: Orly

Orly — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:45:29 +0000

Oh please, English conjugation is a total pain for non-native speakers. I still fail to understand stuff like ''how long have you... have it? had it?'' It makes no sense, I can't connect that structure with anything similar in my language. In my language it would be more like ''And it does how much of time that you this have?''

By: Orly

Orly — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:31:16 +0000

@Kelly : This.

Dear English-Speakers from greedy companies : stop using Google translate when putting instructions and descriptions in other languages. It is very, very ugly most of the time impossible to understand. It is also insulting.

Just pay a native speaker for the job.

By: Orly

Orly — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:18:48 +0000

El castellano/espanol es muy facil para els que hablan una lengua romanica. (sorry for bad Spanish ^^)

By: Orly

Orly — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:13:32 +0000

Are you seriously saying you can’t find enough stuff in Spanish while browsing the Internet?

Because if people have trouble using one of the top 5 most widely spoken languages on the land of pirates and sharewares, that’s bad news for the couple thousands other languages.

By: Orly

Orly — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:06:52 +0000

Don’t forget putting exotic accentuation like you went for a bad immitation of tones.

By: Orly

Orly — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:05:54 +0000

el grapho*

By: Orly

Orly — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:05:00 +0000

”para cagarse de risa”

I can understand why you refrained from translating that part. xD

By: Mystii

Mystii — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:31:49 +0000

me cassa eh su cassa

By: Chiste

Chiste — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:39:43 +0000

This is some funny stuff.. Pa’ que tomarlo como si fuera el fin del mundo? Its called funny graph for a reason, duh! Si no saben como tomar una broma entonces a comer miérda.. Now lets all laugh about it, shall we? Gracias por leer

By: marta

marta — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:32:35 +0000

jajjaja buen chiste….no lo había oído nunca xD

By: Paco, el de las rebajas

Paco, el de las rebajas — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:25:08 +0000

Me he reido lo que no esta escrito con la gráfica y con los comentarios, muy bueno.

By: Zim_256

Zim_256 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:23:27 +0000

¿Piensas que el gráfico es gracioso como –HOLA–?
You sir, made a mistake trying to be funny.

By: Zim_256

Zim_256 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:18:44 +0000

Es lo mismo que si estuviera posteado en francés o español, las lenguas romances son entendibles entre ellas aunque las reglas de escrituras no se aplican igualmente en todas. Hace poco tuve una conferencia en “portuñol”, mezcla de portugués y español y no hubo ningún problema de entendimiento.

By: Zim_256

Zim_256 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:15:49 +0000

The english language isn’t any better than any other language. It’s just more widespread. If you go to China or russia or wherever, you can probably be understood by talking in english than in your native language or the country you’re visiting native language.

By: Zim_256

Zim_256 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:08:57 +0000

No creo que estés en lo cierto.
^
This proves that this graphic isn’t correct at all, there are no similarity between the english sentence with a added “o” and the correct spanish one.

By: Zim_256

Zim_256 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:07:00 +0000

Aserejé, ja, dejé, dejebere….
Jajaja, siempre hubo de esos que cantan la letra en inglés de oído.

By: Zim_256

Zim_256 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:04:14 +0000

A la mierda con el español, casi todo en la web está en inglés. Quitando los sitios en ruso//checo/chino/japonés, no queda casi nada en español. Realmente, sirve para poco.
Y los sitios en español donde se encuentra información útil son casi nulos, siempre es información estúpida (como yahoo answers)

By: Zim_256

Zim_256 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:01:53 +0000

Si claro, acabas de escribir “tendo” en lugar de “tend”. Creo que más spanglish que eso no se encuentra.

By: Zim_256

Zim_256 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:00:09 +0000

Yo le digo “coca” por coca-cola a cualquier gaseosa. Sea no no coca, a menos que sea una Fanta o una pepsi.

By: Zim_256

Zim_256 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:58:22 +0000

¿Quién no se bajó una película con audio en gallego (Español de españa) en lugar de audio latino.?
Se dice gallego a la pronunciación de españa que difiere con el español de méxico y el resto de latinoamérica.
Incluso en latinoamérica, hay diferencias entre el argentino, chileno, boliviano, venezolano, etc. pero todos aceptan en una película la misma pronunciación neutral pero resulta extraña la pronunciación española.

By: Zim_256

Zim_256 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:54:13 +0000

Jajajajajaja!, nunca me reí tanto en la oficina, estos comentarios son la madre!, para cagarse de risa.
awesome-broso!!!!!!!!! jaaaaaaaaaaaajajajaja.
¿Clases de español? Es lo mismo que aprender inglés, se aprende leyendo, escribiendo pero no yendo a clases.

Hahaha!, never laughed so much in the middle of the office, this comments are really funny.
¿Spanish classes? It’s the same as learning english, you learn reading, writing, speaking but not in a class.

By: someone

someone — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:52:02 +0000

It’s not saying that’s what actually makes up correct spanish words, the chart is referring to what many english speakers tend to do when they don’t know a spanish word. They add an “o”. They know it’s probably wrong, it’s usually done jokingly, to show they really have no idea what the spanish word is.

By: osaka-san

osaka-san — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:40:25 +0000

SexBomb: No vas tan desencaminado con esa (celebración = Celebration)
Oh and by the way, as spanish comes from latin, I guess that the saxon words won’t work when adding “o”

By: someone

someone — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:45:38 +0000

capeta deosn´t mean anything.

but it´s funny because when(we) people who speak spanish as our mother tongue, learn english, we are also warned about this “carpet-folder” problem.

also for example the fact that “advice” doesn´t mean “aviso”(which is a common mistake when you are young) but “consejo”

By: SexBomb

SexBomb — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:31:03 +0000

I am spanish and for translating english all people use “Spaninglish” (Jelou, jou ar yu) or the termination in words “-eision”
Example:

Celebración: Celebreision

By: WorldsTallestMidget

WorldsTallestMidget — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:06:12 +0000

This graph is making fun of ignorant people, and you’re all just proving how ignorant and idiotic people can be.
Many English words sound like Spanish words because they’re both heavily rooted in Latin! Duh! It’s no surprise that so many Italian words are similar to Portuguese words, too.

important (English) = importante (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) = important (French)
difficult (English) = difficile (French and Italian) = difícil (Spanish and Portuguese)

Since most singular Spanish words end in o, a, or e, it’s no surprise that adding one of those to an English word will get you right about as much as guessing “C” on every multiple choice test answer.

By: WorldsTallestMidget

WorldsTallestMidget — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:55:40 +0000

That’s been the toughest thing for me is compiling a list of all the unconjugated verbs in Spanish. They should print a reference book of Spanish verbs. I’d buy it.

By: Rafa

Rafa — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:08:09 +0000

Correct = Correcto
Sex = Sexo
Latin = Latino
person = persona
idiot = idiota
etc….

It isn’t the same:
exit =/= exito
top =/= topo

By: fas

fas — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:14:10 +0000

and “Capeta” means Satan

By: metaltothedeath

metaltothedeath — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:41:06 +0000

English has no accents. Neither does my keyboard.

By: marcel

marcel — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:33:01 +0000

Guilty, In Spain I referred to “Mickey Mouse” as “Mickey Mouso”…. My friends laughed and actually understood….

By: ed

ed — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:31:30 +0000

vos chupame esta !!!!! xD !!!!!!

By: ed

ed — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:28:26 +0000

pues en general la pronunciacion inglesa de los españoles es fatal, hasta sorprende cuando algún español pronuncia otro idioma correctamente xD !!!!

sino decime como pronuncian en españa “iceberg”…entre otras

By: ed

ed — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:23:55 +0000

xD !!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Yay

Yay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:19:47 +0000

Unfortunately, ending the sentences with “wachin” or “gato” is now common in the not so good teenagers

By: Anto

Anto — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:11:26 +0000

Nunca dije que solo se hicieran en galicia, sino que en las españolas, o traducidas con personas españolas. En argentina, (Y capaz que en algun otro pais limitrofe) se dice mucho gallego a la gente española, no porque sean de alla, sino porque asi es como se lo denomina, asi como se le dice chino a cualquier oriental.

By: Anto

Anto — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:08:49 +0000

And i’m just 14 years old, and i hate geography and related things, besides it’s a common (But it seems to be wrong) thing here.

By: Anto

Anto — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:02:03 +0000

LoL, vacunar la carpeta xD. Yo aun no puedo creer que haya gente que se confunda vacuum con vacunar, o carpet con carpeta, no digo que lo hayas hecho (Entendi la broma duh), pero que los hay, los hay! (Aun recuerdo mis compañeros de ingles, uno de ellos se mando “the mascot”(refiriendose a mascota de animalito domestico ) y se comfundio best con beast)

By: Anto

Anto — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:57:30 +0000

Pun FTW

By: Anto

Anto — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:45:49 +0000

Argentina, but calling spanish people gallego it’s like sayin’ “coca-cola” when the drink it’s just a common cola soda. Or sayin chinese instead if japasese.

By: Anto

Anto — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:40:59 +0000

No digo en españa, digo en las peliculas traducidas

By: srness

srness — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:17:07 +0000

¬¬”

By: kurokenji

kurokenji — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:27:07 +0000

true, friendo.

By: luser

luser — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:47:34 +0000

file folder also means a physical one, not necessarily a folder in a computer

By: tapieromateo

tapieromateo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:44:06 +0000

i know what im talking about. im a native spanish speaker. y se que realmente no es asi, solo que me gusta hacer alusion al 60% que aparece en el graph

By: yuu

yuu — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:35:02 +0000

“incluso el catalán”!!… eso me ha ofendido, oiga XDDD que soy catalana y mi idioma está re-bien =P

By: zoroastro

zoroastro — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:49:05 +0000

oops, ejem… no se si te has fijado, pero el post tiene el ironic-mode = on