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A needed reference to the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, actually about the possible consequences of "careless talk", but that fits nicely on misundrstandings
by jaclaz 9y ago
A needed reference to the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, actually about the possible consequences of "careless talk", but that fits nicely on misundrstandings/mistranslating:
"I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle."
http://www.mostly-harmless.de/crllstlk.htm http://www.mostly-harmless.de/crllstlk.htm
An actual one Italian/French is the expression (once rather common in Italian) "La bellezza dell'asino", literally "The beauty of the donkey" used to decribe the beauty of a young girl, coming assertedly by a mistyping/misunderstanding of the intended French "La beauté de l'âge" (literally "The beauty of the age") into "La beauté de l'âne" that was consequently mistranslated:
https://books.google.it/books?id=7zYrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.it/books?id=7zYrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA205&lpg=P...