pellizcacristales
English translation: Good-for-nothing
| 03:46 Jul 14, 2020 |
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|  Selected response from: María Perales Spain Local time: 12:06 | ||||||
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| 4 | glass-pinching fool/idiot |
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| 4 -1 | Good-for-nothing |
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2 hrs confidence: 
peer agreement (net): -1
peer agreement (net): -1Good-for-nothing Explanation: I think this could be a choice. There is a wide range of funny insults of this kind, such as: "abrazafarolas", "muerdebordillos" or "chupacharcos". ;-) |
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glass-pinching fool/idiot Explanation: I'd say something along these lines, which contains a literal rendering in conjunction with a necessary (to make it sound natural) clarifying noun (i.e., fool, idiot, buffoon), would appear to reproduce at least some of the source text's humorous and stylistic effects, as it also uses a compound idiom, similar to that seen in the source text. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 21 hrs (2020-07-15 01:03:02 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- In my PhD thesis, which I have just cited (and from which I have just quoted) in Discussion, I think it's important to capture the nuanced humor of the source text, which here includes a touch of sarcasm-laden humor, and that, in doing so, we should not shy away from creating imaginative solutions. In the case of "pellizcacristales," I would not render it, though, as simply "glass-pincher," as this would fail to reproduce the intended humor (or sarcasm), but in conjunction with a commonly-used derogatory term (such as fool, idiot, buffoon, or even imbecile), it may adequately capture the source text's humor. |
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