Kocourkov
English translation: Gotham Village
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| 11:41 Sep 14, 2007 |
| Czech to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Folklore | |||||
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|  Selected response from: Pavel Blann Czech Republic Local time: 15:58 | ||||
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| 5 | basket case |
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| 5 | Chelm |
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| 4 +1 | Gotham |
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| 3 | Elbonia |
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| 1 | Absurdistan |
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basket case Explanation: Problém je, že v angličtině se to vztahuje zejména na ekonomickou situaci (země vlastní vinou zabředlá v ekonomických problémech) a nikoli nutně na celkovou absurditu. |
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Absurdistan Explanation: Except for one problem : Kocourkov is usually just a local area / village / community, while Absurdistan is more or less a whole country, region or nation. But then Czech has Absurdistan also ... Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdistan |
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Elbonia Explanation: Dilbert je znama postava, treba by se to taky hodilo Petr Reference: http://www.dilbert.com/ |
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Chelm Explanation: This is not something a regular English speaker would probably know but there are the stories about the "sages of Chelm" - Jewish stories which, as it turns out, likely have been the inspiration for the Kocourkov book given how similar they are. My sons heard the Chelm stories at a primary school in the US so they are not entirely unknown here but still I am not sure this should be used assuming every English speaker will understand. See the story I linked; it sounds entirely like kocourkovsti (=sages of Chelm). Reference: http://smyjewishlearning.atypica.com/culture/Humor/HumorBank... |
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7 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1Gotham Explanation: nebo: Abdera -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 min (2007-09-14 11:51:11 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- kocourkovský: abderite kocourkovští radní: wise men of Gotham -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 h (2007-09-14 12:45:37 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- www.gothamvillage.co.uk/tales.htm -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 h (2007-09-14 14:51:25 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- you're welcome ;) |
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