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Irish_eyes
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Username: Irish_eyes
Post Number: 1
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006 - 05:41 am: |   
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"I want something good to die for to make it beautiful to live"
i need this translated for a tatoo, if anyone cud help tht wud be great...
i have this but dont think its just rite...
ba mhaith liom bás a fháil ar son rud éigin maith,chun an saol a bheith álainn.
its more,..."i want to die 4 something good to make life beautiful".. |
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| | Posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006 - 07:13 am: |
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"Ní féidir liom dul ar aghaidh...leanfaidh mé ar aghaidh". (Samuel Beckett). |
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Fear_na_mbróg
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Username: Fear_na_mbróg
Post Number: 1102
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006 - 09:56 am: |
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Maybe something like:
Tá rud maith uaim bás a fháil ar a shon chun an saol a dhéanamh álainn.
Fáilte Roimh Cheartúcháin
Correct me for the love of God... I'm a perfectionist! : )
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Dennis
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Username: Dennis
Post Number: 1260
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006 - 11:57 am: |
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Bheadh an saol go hálainn
dá mbeadh rud éigin ann
a bhfaighinn bás ar a shon.
An ndéanfaidh sé sin cúis? |
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Fiacc (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006 - 01:10 pm: |
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Cúpla cinn eile:
Go múcha mo lasair ar son na háilleachta.
May my flame be extinguished on behalf of beauty.
nó
Go múcha mo lasair ar son cúis álainn.
may my flame be extinguished for a beautiful cause. |
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Fear_na_mbróg
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Username: Fear_na_mbróg
Post Number: 1104
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006 - 01:15 pm: |
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I think you'll get many different offers for a translation of this because your original phrase is so cryptic and unspecific.
"I want something good to die for to make it beautiful to live" just doesn't make sense unless you're some sort of philosopher. You explain it as:
"i want to die 4 something good to make life beautiful"
So is this to imply that, if you die for a good reason (martyrdom pehaps), then your life will have been beautiful (or are you referring to the concept of "life" in general?). Something like:
If my death is virtuous, my life is beautiful.
Más suáilceach an bás a fhaighim,
is álainn an saol a chaithim.
Fáilte Roimh Cheartúcháin
Correct me for the love of God... I'm a perfectionist! : )
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Maidhc_Ó_g
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Username: Maidhc_Ó_g
Post Number: 186
Registered: 05-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006 - 03:34 pm: |
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Cuireann an bás rudaí álainn fiúntas mór ar an tsaol beo dom.
The death of beautiful things gives more value to the living world to me. |
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Dennis
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Username: Dennis
Post Number: 1273
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, April 15, 2006 - 04:29 pm: |
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quote:ba mhaith liom bás a fháil ar son rud éigin maith... Chuir sé sin rud éigin eile i gcuimhne dom, líne ón ngearrscéal "La forma de la espalda" le Jorge Luis Borges: "Yo le dije que a un gentleman sólo pueden interesarle causas perdidas..." I wonder, by the way, if there is an Irish translation of this story, since it deals in large part with the war in Ireland in 1922. |
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Irish_eyes
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Username: Irish_eyes
Post Number: 2
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 06:11 am: |
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thanks for the help....i was thinking it wouldnt really translate right...
can i ask does this phrase:
ba mhaith liom bás a fháil ar son rud éigin maith,chun an saol a bheith álainn.
mean this in english
i want to die for something good to make life beautiful".. |
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Dennis
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Username: Dennis
Post Number: 1276
Registered: 02-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, April 16, 2006 - 05:22 pm: |
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quote:to make life beautiful" chun an saol a dhéanamh álainn chun go mbeidh an saol álainn = so that life/the world will be beautiful |
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