Wow! You've got a chocolate fountain in your bedroom.
Yeah. Dry air's not good for my asthma. | Entry #34019 — Discuss  0 — Variant: UKukeng
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You've | Good term selection
Contractions are good markers for feigned orality. | Lydia-Marie Lafforgue No agrees/disagrees | |
Dry air's not good for my asthma | Flows well
Good idea to move away from the German sentence structure and focus on meaning – makes it sound natural. | Meg Zueblin No agrees/disagrees | |
air's | Good term selection
Contractions are good markers for feigned orality. | Lydia-Marie Lafforgue No agrees/disagrees | |
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. | Punctuation
This reads flat following the exclamation "Wow!" | Meg Zueblin No agrees/disagrees | |
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WOW. YOU HAVE A CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN IN YOUR BEDROOM.
ERM, YES. I HAVE ASTHMA. KEEPS THE AIR MOIST. | Entry #34199 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Britishbritish
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39 | 6 x4 | 5 x2 | 5 x1 |
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WOW, YOU HAVE A CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN IN YOUR BEDROOM!?
I HAVE ASTHMA AND DRY AIR MAKES IT WORSE. | Entry #34069 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specifiednone
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, | Other
Nice choice of a comma to avoid two sentences with exclamation points. | Meg Zueblin No agrees/disagrees | |
!? | Other
Nice way to show surprise and a bit of disbelief (in the context of a comic). | Meg Zueblin No agrees/disagrees | |
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Hey, that's amazing! A chocolate fountain in your bedroom!
I suffer from asthma - can't cope with dry air. | Entry #34094 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Britishbritish
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Hey, that's amazing! A chocolate fountain in your bedroom! | Other
Too long. Comic translation needs to take into account the visual surroundings in which the text is embedded, in this case spatial restrictions of the speech bubble. | Lydia-Marie Lafforgue No agrees/disagrees | |
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"Wow. So, you actually have a chocolate fountain in your bedroom."
"My asthma can't stand the dry air." | Entry #34249 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Britishbritish
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can't | Good term selection
Contractions work well as a marker for feigned orality. | Lydia-Marie Lafforgue No agrees/disagrees | |
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So, you actually have a chocolate fountain in your bedroom. | Other
Too long. Comic translation needs to take into account the visual surroundings in which the text is embedded, in this case spatial restrictions of the speech bubble. | Lydia-Marie Lafforgue No agrees/disagrees | |
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WOW. YOU HAVE YEAH A CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN IN YOUR SLEEPING ROOM.
I HAVE ASTHMA AND CANNOT STAND DRY AIR. | Entry #34159 — Discuss 0 — Variant: Not specifiednone
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4 | 1 x4 | 0 | 0 |
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-1 +2 1 YEAH | Mistranslations
Doesn't mean 'yeah' in this context, used more of an exaggeration in disbelief. | Paige Baillie | |
-1 +3 2 SLEEPING ROOM | Mistranslations
Sleeping room is a literal translation. Not an English phrase. | Paige Baillie | |
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