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>When coffee is all gone. >It's over. Mistranslation or not, it has turned out into beautiful short form of poetry.
by Jorengarenar 4y ago
>When coffee is all gone.
>It's over.
Mistranslation or not, it has turned out into beautiful short form of poetry.
- YurgenJurgensen 4y agoWithout context, it's still a reasonable translation. I guess the idiomatic English in that situation would be "When the coffee is gone, it's gone.", or maybe "Refills of coffee will not be provided".
- alistairSH 4y agoI’d love to see the original setting. Was the sign intended to tell the consumer that no fresh coffee would be made, or that there are no free refills? The museum setting (in front of an empty coffee maker) implies the first, but I suspect the second was intended?
- projektfu 4y agoIt says, when this coffee has run out, it is finished. Basically, this pot will not be refilled. I can imagine at a hotel where there is free coffee in the lobby but just in the morning.
- layer8 4y agoIt’s the coffee-pot equivalent of “while supplies last”.
- naniwaduni 4y agoHonestly, the only mistranslation here is the extraneous full stop after the first clause. Replace it with a comma and it becomes a serviceable, if odd-sounding, English sentence that conveys the correct meaning.
- blululu 4y ago“Everything not saved will be lost forever” - Nintendo Cartridge. Somehow we block out poetry in our own language, but translation it can pass through as a translation.
- galgot 4y agoA haïku to leave before seppuku. No more coffee is indeed catastrophic.
- torcete 4y agoReminds me of the out of coffee scene from Airplane 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbv5B71KmkA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbv5B71KmkA