Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: This one takes the cake

From Inspector Linley's murder Cases on BBC Prime :
Inspector Linley : If I find out you knew, I'll have you locked as an 
accessory.
Italian Subtitles : Se scopro che lo sapevi ti faccio rinchiudere come un 
soprammobile .
The moron who wrote them :
Name : Alessandra
Surname :Diagne
Employer : 
www.broadcasttext.com
Yours
Sal 

The moron who wrote them :
Avrà fatto tutto da sola, o avrà avuto dei complici?
saluti,
Peltio

 soprammobile .
Bellissimo :-))
-- 
Mary

soprammobile .
ROFL!  

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 How would you have translated it?
"Accessory" is someone who helps another person commit a crime.
Ciao
Anna

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Un complice, allora.
-- 
Today no, tomorrow yes.

 Oh, trovalo tu un traduttore filo-bush, sottopagato e competente! 
LOL
(ma per una frazione di secondo ho pensato: che c'entra il filobus?)
Ciao
Anna

 fattorie attorno a baghdad?", si vede che le capre sono da ritenere armi 
Oh, trovalo tu un traduttore filo-bush, sottopagato e competente! 
Ciao, FB
-- 
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(Cold Comfort Farm, the film)

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Not quite. In English law you can be an "accessory before the fact" --
someone who helps you planning or executing the crime, not necessarily
exactly an "accomplice"  -- or an "accessory after the fact" -- not at
all an accomplice, but someone who conceals evidence (or indeed
conceals the criminal) after the crime has been committed.
I am sure Italian law has a similar concept.
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 From Inspector Linley's murder Cases on BBC Prime :
<snippaggio>
All I will say is this: I have a bilingual friend who back in the 1980s
used to do translations of copioni. He was paid, wait for it, 50,000
lire a script. A one-hour script. He'd never have made the
"soprammobile" howler, but at that pay rate? Errors a-plenty.
Best howler I know was in a *published* translation of an English
novel, in which "elbow room" was rendered as "stanza del gomito".
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I am sure Italian law has a similar concept.
Hmmm.... "favoreggiamento" or "concorso", perhaps.
-- 
Enrico C  /testing Pimmy/
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 novel, in which "elbow room" was rendered as "stanza del gomito".
AAh!
:)

 :)
Ho trovato:
"to be out at elbow": avere i gomiti fuori, le maniche 
logore, esser povero;
"up to the elbows (in)": molto occupato (in).
Non ho trovato frasi idiomatiche per:
"alzare il gomito";
"olio di gomito".
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 "olio di gomito".
elbow grease: gran sforzo nel pulire (eg) la cucina
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What about the "flasher" at this past summer Olympics, which RAI
described as a "lampeggiatore" on the Telegiornale?
Joe from Massachusetts

described as a "lampeggiatore" on the Telegiornale?
 I went to a restaurant near Rome: on their bilingual menu,
"sausage" stood for "salsa" [some prawn dressing, IIRC, in that  case]  
:-O 
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 "sausage" stood for "salsa" [some prawn dressing, IIRC, in that  case]  
The poor restaurateur has at least the excuse of poverty and ignorance.
[You should see what "French" and "Italian" restaurants (especially the
former) do in London. I used to amuse myself by writing corrections on
their menus, but it infuriated my wife so I gave up. ]
Around ten years ago there was a flurry of posters by the electronics
multinational Phillips, in "English", at international airports. I saw
this one in Milan:  "Phillips Respects the Ambient". Che vergogna. 
And my own all-time favourite, which I have posted here before.
Throughout central Italy, outside every small town with a left majority
in the comune (ie almost every small town) in the 1980s:
FREE NUCLEAR ZONE
When I explained this idiocy to our (communist) sindaco (a very fine
chap and the local pasticciere) , he exploded with wrath: the signs
were produced in bulk somewhere else.
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Be', ma questa è opera di un traduttore automatico. L'errore segnalato 
da Sal è invece drammaticamente umano!
Ciao
Anna