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Mini-contest 2012: "Yogi Berra Quotes" » English to Estonian

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Source text in English

- "I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."

- "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

- "You can observe a lot just by watchin'."

- "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

- "I can't concentrate when I'm thinking."

- "The future ain't what it used to be."

- "I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."

- "We're lost, but we're making good time."

- "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."

- "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."

- "It's like deja-vu, all over again."

- "It ain't over till it's over."

- Mrs. Lindsay: "You certainly look cool." Yogi Berra: "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself."

- "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be."

There were 8 entries submitted in this pair during the submission phase.

Entries submitted in this pair were rated on a per-segment basis. Listed below are all submitted translations of each individual source text segment.

Submitted segment translations

Translations submitted for each source text segment are listed below. Segments have had surrounding punctuation stripped, and the resulting identical segments have been grouped together, so each listed translation should differ, but the difference may be subtle (eg. internal punctuation or diacritics).

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Source text segment #6

- "The future ain't what it used to be."
Rank by:
+35
Incongruity created by referring to the future using a past tense/construction. There's also some ambiguity by what is meant as "the future", is it "the way we think about the future. The perception of the future is not as it once was.
+9 | -2
Something like "Ah, the good new days!"
+4
A friend put it in another way, while reading the obituary in the newspaper: "The people who are dying now never died before." In other words, "change is inevitable".
+5 | -1
As you get older, your expectations and capabilities diminish. When you thought about the future in the past, it looked great!
+2
He is referring to the future as 'the good ol' days'.
+2 | -1
Past used to be a future too, for the time before THAT past.
Isang simpleng pagpapahayag na di nagkakatugma ang mga inaasahang mangyayarai sa hinaharap mula sa aktwal na nangyayari.
+2 | -2
We have an expectation of what the future will be like, but if something happens that we did not foresee, the future that we expected is no longer the future that will actually occur.
+5 | -5
To me it means that the future, as it becomes the present, is not turning out like we expected...(probably worse )
+1 | -6
future, being future, can't be as it was used to be.
No one knows what's going to happen.

Translations of this segment (8 total; 8 unique)

Tulevik ei ole see, mis oleks pidanud olema
Ma ei osta oma lastele entsüklopeediat. Las nad kõnnivad kooli nagu mina seda tegin
Tulevik pole enam see, mis ta oli
Tulevik on tume
Tulevik ei ole enam see, mis vanasti
Tulevik ei ole juba see, mis pidi olema olnud
Tulevik pole enam see, mis ta varem oli
Tulevik pole enam see mis vanasti
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