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sonia
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Initially Posted - 10/26/2004 :  05:32:19  Show Profile
hi, i'm french and i'm looking for the translation of an expression:
"I have always water under the keel and happy return".
if someone has a translation of it i would very thankful to him;
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sonia
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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 10/26/2004 :  11:18:26  Show Profile
J'ai toujours l'eau sous la quille et le retour heureux

You can go here [url="http://world.altavista.com/"]translator[/url]and translate most anything to or from English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Greek, Portuguese, etc., etc.

Steve
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sailgal
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Response Posted - 10/26/2004 :  13:15:30  Show Profile
<font face="Arial Black"><font face="Book Antiqua">site Web frais, merci ! </font id="Book Antiqua"></font id="Arial Black">

(French for - Cool website, thanks!)
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Oscar
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Response Posted - 10/26/2004 :  20:13:57  Show Profile  Visit Oscar's Homepage
Isn't that where John Cleese got his faulty Hungarian dictionary...?

Dutch was my first language, English my second. There was a time I could converse in French, I can still butcher a conversation in German, and I can fake it in Spanish. I studied the classics in Greek and Latin. At the risk of patronizing you, my fellow forum members, I feel compelled to point out that things don't translate literally.

Sonia, the phrase is in and of itself not correct English, I suspect it was translated once before. Unfortunately the translation offered by the others is not correct French either, although I would at this point not know how to say it correctly. I suspect the root may lie in a toast, along the lines of "May you have water under your keel, and a safe return".......(and now I have to run things through my Dutch-French dictionary)....et retourne sain et sauf.....

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cathluk
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Response Posted - 10/26/2004 :  20:16:13  Show Profile
Oh Oscar - don't go there. I've found sailors are great fans of Monty Python.

Now if you'll excuse me - I have to see the pet shop man about my parrott...
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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 10/26/2004 :  22:06:41  Show Profile
Of course the English going in was convoluted but that's what Sonia asked for and that's what the translator-in-a-box spit out. One of those, "You get what you pay for" things, I guess.


"Pouvez vous toujours avoir l'eau sous votre quille et un retour sûr" is what the site gives for Oscar's, "May you always have water under your keel and a safe return." (Gee, I always thought that meant, "May you survive all the knockdowns.")


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MattL
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Response Posted - 10/27/2004 :  01:29:18  Show Profile
Douglas Adams had a great translator in "Hitchikers Guid to the Galaxy". Try this for translator too.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/.
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Charlie Vick
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Response Posted - 10/27/2004 :  09:24:38  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by MattL</i>
<br />Douglas Adams had a great translator in "Hitchikers Guid to the Galaxy". Try this for translator too.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Great book but I don't think I'd like one of those stuck in my ear!

CVick
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jm
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Response Posted - 10/27/2004 :  11:18:14  Show Profile
Zee Francois Canuck, it go sumting like dis, eh?

J'espère que tu vas avoir de l'eau sous la quille et bon retour.
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Lightnup
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Response Posted - 10/27/2004 :  11:35:56  Show Profile
Yeah, like he said.
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