On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Eli Marmor wrote:
> Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
>
> > While that affects the result, it does not explain what I will never
> > forget: many years ago I saw a movie on TV set during WWII. A Nazi officer
> > greeted another one with "Heil Hitler!" The Hebrew subtitle said, "Shalom."
>
> In some languages (such as Arabic), there is no big difference between
> these two terms (the original term in German, and the Hebrew
> translation).
>
> It reminds me a verse from the "Brit HaChadasha"(*):
>
> "The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak".
>
> The brilliant translator translated it to:
>
> "HaVodka Achla, Aval HaBasar Mehurban"...
I knew this as an old computer translation joke....
The phrase having been translated to Russian and then back again.
Along the lines of
"Out of sight, out of mind" translated to "invisible idiot"
Thanks,
Uri
http://translation.israel.net
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