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Title: "Hair of the dog" - translation into other languages?
Post by: peliroja on 08 October, 2009, 02:02:37 pm: At a request from a colleague who's putting together an email to invite people to a wine tasting... any ideas?
Title: Re: "Hair of the dog" - translation into other languages?
Post by: Greenbank on 08 October, 2009, 02:13:24 pm: It's something like "Curarse la cruda" en Español. Well, in Latin American Spanish anyway, hence the -arse ending.

Would it be "Curar la cruda" in European Spanish?
Title: Re: "Hair of the dog" - translation into other languages?
Post by: iakobski on 08 October, 2009, 02:26:55 pm: That's not quite the same, the idea of having a hair of the dog (that bit you) is not that it's just a hangover cure, it's using alcohol as the cure.

In French, something like on guérit mal par le mal but my French is not up to that.
Title: Re: "Hair of the dog" - translation into other languages?
Post by: Greenbank on 08 October, 2009, 02:37:48 pm: Indeed, but a "Cure for a hangover" is the name for more booze, same thing really. I've forgotten the Lunfardo word for hangover, but that'd only be useful if you're inviting any Porteños.

Cheating and looking at the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_of_the_dog) page, it gives "pelos de la misma chancha" as being used in Costa Rica, but there's no guarantee that "hair of the pig" would be meaningful to a Spaniard (or anyone outside Costa Rica for that matter) given the subtle differences between the language in each country (I carefully avoided asking to fuck the bus in South America).
Title: Re: "Hair of the dog" - translation into other languages?
Post by: Greenbank on 08 October, 2009, 02:51:06 pm: Quote from: A Random One on 08 October, 2009, 02:26:55 pm
guérit mal par le mal but my French is not up to that.

Long-winded (and probably incorrect):-

Reprendre un verre, pour faire passer sa gueule de bois, il faut guérir le mal par le mal.

Would "Reprende un verre." do as shorthand?

I love the phrase "wooden head". :)
Title: Re: "Hair of the dog" - translation into other languages?
Post by: токамак on 08 October, 2009, 02:51:23 pm: Cheveux de la chien.

I imagine it would draw blank looks in France, but Del Boy would know what you meant. :P
Title: Re: "Hair of the dog" - translation into other languages?
Post by: Greenbank on 08 October, 2009, 02:55:10 pm: And finally, "Konterbier" auf Deutsch. Literally "counter beer" (as in counter-attack).
Title: Re: "Hair of the dog" - translation into other languages?
Post by: iakobski on 08 October, 2009, 03:00:52 pm: Quote from: Greenbank on 08 October, 2009, 02:37:48 pm
Indeed, but a "Cure for a hangover" is the name for more booze, same thing really. I've forgotten the Lunfardo word for hangover, but that'd only be useful if you're inviting any Porteños.

Cheating and looking at the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_of_the_dog) page, it gives "pelos de la misma chancha" as being used in Costa Rica, but there's no guarantee that "hair of the pig" would be meaningful to a Spaniard (or anyone outside Costa Rica for that matter) given the subtle differences between the language in each country (I carefully avoided asking to fuck the bus in South America).

Interesting, & ISC.

Quote from: Greenbank on 08 October, 2009, 02:51:06 pm
Quote from: A Random One on 08 October, 2009, 02:26:55 pm
guérit mal par le mal but my French is not up to that.

Long-winded (and probably incorrect):-

Reprendre un verre, pour faire passer sa gueule de bois, il faut guérir le mal par le mal.

Would "Reprende un verre." do as shorthand?

I love the phrase "wooden head". :)

Wooden mouth, Shirley? As in Amuse-gueule. ;)
Title: Re: "Hair of the dog" - translation into other languages?
Post by: Greenbank on 08 October, 2009, 03:19:21 pm: Quote from: A Random One on 08 October, 2009, 03:00:52 pm
Wooden mouth, Shirley? As in Amuse-gueule. ;)

Indeed, I blame my cerveau de bois.
Title: Re: "Hair of the dog" - translation into other languages?
Post by: cometworm on 08 October, 2009, 06:07:33 pm: Norwegian: (å) reparere. Lit. (to) repair.
Title: Re: "Hair of the dog" - translation into other languages?
Post by: pdm on 08 October, 2009, 08:40:18 pm: Quote from: токамак on 08 October, 2009, 02:51:23 pm
Cheveux de la chien.

I imagine it would draw blank looks in France, but Del Boy would know what you meant. :P

[pedant]

..... du chien.
..... de la chienne.

and I guess one should use "pelage" when talking about animal coverings.....

[/pedant] ;)
Title: Re: "Hair of the dog" - translation into other languages?
Post by: токамак on 09 October, 2009, 10:13:44 am: Plume de ma Tante! ::-) It's Del Boy French (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/onlyfools/lingo/euro.shtml), ca va? ;)