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49Translation - Turkish-English - Göllenmiş at israrında yüzen sinek...

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Göllenmiş at israrında yüzen sinek...
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Submitted by kendin_ol_19
Source language: Turkish

Göllenmiş at idrarında yüzen saman çöpüne konan sinek, idrar birikintisini deryâ, saman çöpünü gemi, kendini de kaptân-ı deryâ sanır.

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Captain fly
Translation
English

Translated by kfeto
Target language: English

A fly landing on a straw floating in a pool of horsepiss will think the pool to be an ocean, the straw a ship and itself a captain of the seas.
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Haha this is already one of my favourites
Last validated or edited by lilian canale - 27 March 2010 12:35





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9 March 2010 16:10

lilian canale
Number of messages: 14972
Hi kendin,

Bu çeviriye hala ihtiyacın var mı yoksa talep kaldırılsın mı?

24 March 2010 20:59

merdogan
Number of messages: 3769

Dear lilian,
wowwww you also can Turkish. You are great.

A fly landing ...> A fly who lands
will think...> thinks

24 March 2010 22:59

lilian canale
Number of messages: 14972
Hi merdogan, no no, that's an administrative message

About your first suggestion I don't think it's correct.
A fly landing = A fly which/that lands

What about the second, kfeto?

CC: merdogan

24 March 2010 23:21

merdogan
Number of messages: 3769
Dear lilian,
You are our expert. Therefore I have nothing to say about yours.
I thought about that all sentences have to be in same time.

24 March 2010 23:57

lilian canale
Number of messages: 14972
Verb tenses in English are sometimes different from other languages. They don't work the same way, specially when using participles and modals .

CC: merdogan

25 March 2010 12:09

kfeto
Number of messages: 953
Hello Lilian, Merdogan.

Since it is a hypothetical event personally I think 'will' is ok.

Your call, Lilian


25 March 2010 15:01

lilian canale
Number of messages: 14972
"will" is fine for me

25 March 2010 22:31

merdogan
Number of messages: 3769
It is a proverb. Is it not good to use "simple present tense" instate of "future tense"?