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08-11-2006, 11:57 AM
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Hey, I'm currently translating some songs of a band called Druhá Tráva (Second Grass - Druhá Tráva Official Website) for their US tour.
I desperately need some help! Here is a list of what I need, I'll post more and more through the stages of the translation...
- What is the slang term for a jail?
- How is the Paprika, the Capia breed, called in English?  THANKS!!!  | 
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08-11-2006, 11:58 AM
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If you can help to improve the rhymes, I'll be very glad!!! Pendl To Betlehem
I don’t hear a word, just dogs barking and seagull’s giggle
Bells’re wailing, (trapisté?) humming and a crows whizzing
The whistle’s sizzling, even your kiss sounds like slap
Dies irae, and all above it, a Pelican roughly yells
But before I cut away, my dumb love
I’ll be glad to hitchhike something for ya
Today morning, a (Pendl) to Betlehem [bejt-lem]
Or then tomorrow, a cab straight for heaven [hej-ven]
I can see in your eyes, you always got what you wanted
You’re all way insane from my dread and my nudity
The priests are rending my heart, with a stone knife
Those same as you, my beloved, same as you, same as you
But before I cut away, my dumb love
I’ll be glad to hitchhike something for ya
Today morning, a (Pendl) to Betlehem
Or then tomorrow, a cab straight for heaven
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08-11-2006, 12:23 PM
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- End of the World
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08-11-2006, 01:32 PM
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| Slang terms for jail- the joint, the pen (short for penitentiary), "up the river" means in prison. Calaboose is an old Southwestern term for jail too.
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08-11-2006, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Pisis Hey, I'm currently translating some songs of a band called Druhá Tráva (Second Grass - Druhá Tráva Official Website) for their US tour.
I desperately need some help! Here is a list of what I need, I'll post more and more through the stages of the translation...
- What is the slang term for a jail?
- How is the Paprika, the Capia breed, called in English? THANKS!!! | Pisis, you mean the spice paprika? It's just paprika.
I think Twitch is right about the jail translation. "The Pen" or "The Joint". You are sent "up river". Sent to prison. Locked up in the "County", if local jail. Sent to "Club Fed".
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08-11-2006, 04:06 PM
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| Jail is also known as "the big house", "The slammer", "pokey"
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08-11-2006, 04:15 PM
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08-12-2006, 12:12 AM
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08-12-2006, 01:00 AM
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08-12-2006, 08:19 AM
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08-12-2006, 08:25 AM
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08-12-2006, 09:57 AM
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Twitch, I meant not the spicy one, it is a special specie of paprika, that in latin (and thus in Czech + other languages) called Capia... But it has been solved now.
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