Do you speak British? Feisty?

rssnlvr · December 2011

If the British says, "Blimey, Danny. You do pull them out, son." what would the American be???

"Woah, Danny. You........"

The context is a dad talking to his son. His son (Danny) has just told him a crazy story about finding a missing movie star living in the shed behind his grandma's house.

FeistyFille · December 2011

rssnlvr:
If the British says, "Blimey, Danny. You do pull them out, son." what would the American be???
"Woah, Danny. You........"
The context is a dad talking to his son. His son (Danny) has just told him a crazy story about finding a missing movie star living in the shed behind his grandma's house.

I am by no means 100% fluent, but I get by.

My translation would be "Woah, Danny. You do pull them out [of your ass], son." As in, Danny is telling big, fat lies.

FeistyFille · December 2011

Alternatively, "Woah, Danny. You do find yourself in the most crazy situations, son." As in, Danny is prone to stepping into unusual situations. But I'd still go with my first guess.

Want me to ask DH?

rssnlvr · December 2011

sh!t. I didn't even type it right. It's "You do pull them, son." No "out."

Would that be like, "you pull people's legs?"

No, no need to bother your DH. I'll just make something up.

Crazy Brits!!

kiarox2002 · December 2011

Given the context, I would think either "you're pulling my leg" or something along the lines of the crazies "coming out of the wood work" around the son.

Disclaimer- I no longer speak fluent British.

Now I have to know, what are you translating?

FeistyFille · December 2011

So "pulling" is like going out to bars & hooking up with someone, but I'm guessing from the context that's not the case here. I'd still go with option #1.

rssnlvr · December 2011

My current project is one in which we bought a series of British leveled readers (leveled for grades 3-5) and are "translating" them into American English and creating teacher's guides to go with them.

I went with, "Woah, Danny. That's quite a story."

My brain is translation-mush.

rssnlvr · December 2011

FeistyFille:
So "pulling" is like going out to bars & hooking up with someone, but I'm guessing from the context that's not the case here. I'd still go with option #1.

I would LOVE to change this to, "Woah, Danny. You do hook up with sluts a lot."

FeistyFille · December 2011

rssnlvr:
FeistyFille:
So "pulling" is like going out to bars & hooking up with someone, but I'm guessing from the context that's not the case here. I'd still go with option #1.
I would LOVE to change this to, "Woah, Danny. You do hook up with sluts a lot."

And that would be a perfectly acceptable translation if this were a certain kind of book.

mcurban · December 2011

FeistyFille:
So "pulling" is like going out to bars & hooking up with someone, but I'm guessing from the context that's not the case here. I'd still go with option #1.

Depending on the age of Danny, I'd actually go for this one. I mean, if he's 8, not appropriate. But, if he's 15 or so, then yeah, this is something that a dad would say to his kid, joking.

agran · December 2011

mcurban:

FeistyFille:
So "pulling" is like going out to bars & hooking up with someone, but I'm guessing from the context that's not the case here. I'd still go with option #1.

Depending on the age of Danny, I'd actually go for this one. I mean, if he's 8, not appropriate. But, if he's 15 or so, then yeah, this is something that a dad would say to his kid, joking.

but about some old movie star behind his grandmother's shed? this is getting criminal. Crazy Brits.

rssnlvr · December 2011

mcurban:
FeistyFille:
So "pulling" is like going out to bars & hooking up with someone, but I'm guessing from the context that's not the case here. I'd still go with option #1.
Depending on the age of Danny, I'd actually go for this one. I mean, if he's 8, not appropriate. But, if he's 15 or so, then yeah, this is something that a dad would say to his kid, joking.

Yeah, he's 8. And I can't even mention things like hotels having minibars, so I'm preeety sure sluts are off limits.

I feel so censored.

mcurban · December 2011

agran:
mcurban:

FeistyFille:
So "pulling" is like going out to bars & hooking up with someone, but I'm guessing from the context that's not the case here. I'd still go with option #1.

Depending on the age of Danny, I'd actually go for this one. I mean, if he's 8, not appropriate. But, if he's 15 or so, then yeah, this is something that a dad would say to his kid, joking.

but about some old movie star behind his grandmother's shed? this is getting criminal. Crazy Brits.

Straight up nuts.

txbabs111 · December 2011

agran:
mcurban:

FeistyFille:
So "pulling" is like going out to bars & hooking up with someone, but I'm guessing from the context that's not the case here. I'd still go with option #1.

Depending on the age of Danny, I'd actually go for this one. I mean, if he's 8, not appropriate. But, if he's 15 or so, then yeah, this is something that a dad would say to his kid, joking.

but about some old movie star behind his grandmother's shed? this is getting criminal. Crazy Brits.

It's making me want to read the book. Wink

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