Mar 21, 2017 22:53
7 yrs ago
French term
Caroline
père de Josette / paire de chaussettes
French to English
Art/Literary
Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
puns/humour
French film - am doing the English subtitles.
This is a really difficult one. When translating the screenplay, I reflected on this for weeks, and came up with precisely nothing, so left it in French in the end. Now I'm doing the subtitles for the film, so I absolutely have to come up with an English joke/pun …
A couple are talking about having children.
The man makes a silly pun about babies' names.
The man says
"Si c'est une fille, on l'appellera Josette - j'ai toujours rêvé d'être le père de Josette." (paire de chaussettes)
I need to adapt this into English. As it's for subtitles, the more concise the better.
If anyone feels like having a shot at this, all suggestions very welcome.
Thank you.
Caroline.
This is a really difficult one. When translating the screenplay, I reflected on this for weeks, and came up with precisely nothing, so left it in French in the end. Now I'm doing the subtitles for the film, so I absolutely have to come up with an English joke/pun …
A couple are talking about having children.
The man makes a silly pun about babies' names.
The man says
"Si c'est une fille, on l'appellera Josette - j'ai toujours rêvé d'être le père de Josette." (paire de chaussettes)
I need to adapt this into English. As it's for subtitles, the more concise the better.
If anyone feels like having a shot at this, all suggestions very welcome.
Thank you.
Caroline.
Proposed translations
(English)
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Proposed translations
+6
13 hrs
Selected
Even more silly names
If it's a girl, we'll call her Feld; I've always wanted to be feldspar.
If it's a girl, we'll call her Lolly; I've always wanted to be a lollipop.
If it's a girl, we'll call her Uhm; I've always wanted to be an oom pah pah.
If it's a girl, we'll call her Sugar; I've always wanted to be a sugar daddy.
If it's a girl, we'll call her Dissy; I've always wanted to be a dissipater.
Or, on a slightly different note:
If it's a girl, we'll call her Carrie; I've always wanted to have charisma.
If it's a girl, we'll call her Minnie; I've always wanted to be a minimum.
If it's a boy, we'll call him Max; I've always wanted to be a maximum.
If it's a girl, we'll call her Lolly; I've always wanted to be a lollipop.
If it's a girl, we'll call her Uhm; I've always wanted to be an oom pah pah.
If it's a girl, we'll call her Sugar; I've always wanted to be a sugar daddy.
If it's a girl, we'll call her Dissy; I've always wanted to be a dissipater.
Or, on a slightly different note:
If it's a girl, we'll call her Carrie; I've always wanted to have charisma.
If it's a girl, we'll call her Minnie; I've always wanted to be a minimum.
If it's a boy, we'll call him Max; I've always wanted to be a maximum.
Peer comment(s):
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Sandra & Kenneth Grossman
: Like!
43 mins
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Thanks!
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Yvonne Gallagher
: silly but inventive and easy to "get". I found it hard to come up with anything decent so refrained:-)
3 hrs
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Thanks Gallagy. You agree that they're silly?
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Yolanda Broad
14 hrs
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Thanks Yolanda
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Paolo Dagonnier
23 hrs
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Thanks Paolo
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Victoria Britten
: Wonderfully silly. That having been said, my vote would go to Sugar, possibly the least silly of the 'father' ones, because it seems to me to most closely fit the different parameters of the original.
1 day 8 hrs
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Thanks Victoria
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Caroline64
: I like Sugar Daddy
6 days
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Thanks Caroline
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
5 hrs
Pierre Castegnier
Native in French
Translation, Technology, Transfer
Native in: French (Variant: Canadian) 
Works in: English to French, French to English
SueAnn father/ shoo-in father
If it’s a girl, we’ll call her SueAnne – I’ve always dreamt of being a Shoo-in father.
(for what it's worth)
(for what it's worth)
+1
7 hrs
Wendy Streitparth
Germany
Germany
Native in English
Germany
45 years experience
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: German to English, French to English, Spanish to English, and 2 more.
Ginger's pop (ginger pop)
Perhaps its too early in the morning! Really difficult when you're not up to par.
Peer comment(s):
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BrigitteHilgner
: My natice language is neither French nor English, but I understand the pun.
40 mins
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Thanks Brigitte - didn't expect any agrees :-)
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+3
10 hrs
a couple of (silly) suggestions
"We'll call her Leamington. I've always dreamed of being Leamington's pa (Leamington Spa)."
British people would get this but Americans probably wouldn't. But perhaps there's another familiar spa town I haven't thought of.
"We'll call her Field. I've always dreamed of being father of Field (farther afield)."
Obviously nobody would call their daughter Leamington, and Field is pretty rare, though it exists. They're just excuses for a pun.
I've been trying to do something with Pa to F.... / part of ....., but without success.
British people would get this but Americans probably wouldn't. But perhaps there's another familiar spa town I haven't thought of.
"We'll call her Field. I've always dreamed of being father of Field (farther afield)."
Obviously nobody would call their daughter Leamington, and Field is pretty rare, though it exists. They're just excuses for a pun.
I've been trying to do something with Pa to F.... / part of ....., but without success.
Peer comment(s):
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Jennifer White
: Yes, if certain people can call their child Brooklyn, why not Leamington??!!
3 hrs
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Stranger things have happened! Thanks, Jennifer :)
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katsy
: I've been chuckling over Leamington for the past hour. As I come to post, I find Jennifer gives one of the examples I was going to quote - the other being Satchel (W.Allen's child)
3 hrs
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Thanks, Katsy! Hardly anything is out of bounds when it comes to naming children these days. Sixties' rock stars showed the way (Frank Zappa called his children Dweezil and Moon Unit). So why not Leamington, indeed?
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Caroline64
: I really liked father of Field - this set me off on a whole lot of other searches using further or farther. Thanks
6 days
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Thanks, Caroline. I'd forgotten about this! It's fun trying to think of them, isn't it?
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+2
12 hrs
Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
United Kingdom
Thorough, knowledgeable and resourceful
Native in: English (Variant: UK)
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, Italian to English, and 4 more.
Related KudoZ points
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4
Trinny dad / Trinidad
as in the name Trinny - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinny_and_Susannah
Peer comment(s):
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Jennifer White
: good one!
7 hrs
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Thank you Jennifer :-))
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Caroline64
6 days
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Thank you Caroline :-)
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12 hrs
more silly suggestions
What about calling her Dot - I've always wanted a 'dotter'...!!
Discussion
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- Kat[herine] --> cat's paw