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Message-ID: <43A697EA.4030707@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Dec 19 11:42:25 2005
From: isaac.albeniz at gmail.com (isaac.albeniz)
Subject: Re: [Clips] A small editorial about recent
events. (fwd)
David Barroso wrote:
> Hey Jamie,
> perhaps it is true that you have lived in 24 countries, but saying that
> Spain is worse than US, or simply compare Spain to Singapore or Russia
> in terms of "democracy" denotes a total lack of information about
> anything that is outside the US.
>
> On dom, 2005-12-18 at 22:55 -0600, Jamie C. Pole wrote:
>
>>Well, some of the more recent ones were as follows:
>>3) Spain, where a Federal government investigator contested some of
>>my forensic findings by stating "Si no existe la evidencia, la
>>haremos para arriba. Cualquier manera, ?l es culpable." (Roughly,
>>"Even if the evidence does not exist, we will make it up. He is
>>going to be found guilty either way."). When the case went to court,
>>that is exactly what they did.
"la haremos para arriba" is a direct mis-translation of "we'll make it
up". So I don't see the point of giving your experience in Spanish if
you're retranslating it... to give some local flavour?
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