Re: [Clips] A small editorial about recent events. (fwd)

["isaac.albeniz" <isaac.albeniz () gmail com>]

David Barroso wrote:
> Hey Jamie,
> perhaps it is true that you have lived in 24 countries, but saying that
> Spain is worse than US, or simply compare Spain to Singapore or Russia
> in terms of "democracy" denotes a total lack of information about
> anything that is outside the US.
>
> On dom, 2005-12-18 at 22:55 -0600, Jamie C. Pole wrote:
>
> > Well, some of the more recent ones were as follows:

> > 3) Spain, where a Federal government investigator contested some of  
> > my forensic findings by stating "Si no existe la evidencia, la  
> > haremos para arriba. Cualquier manera, él es culpable." (Roughly,  
> > "Even if the evidence does not exist, we will make it up.  He is  
> > going to be found guilty either way.").  When the case went to court,  
> > that is exactly what they did.

"la haremos para arriba" is a direct mis-translation of "we'll make it 
up". So I don't see the point of giving your experience in Spanish if 
you're retranslating it... to give some local flavour?

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