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Old 02-02-2006, 01:11 PM   #1
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does this phrase exist in english language?


hello.. this is a *really trivial* issue ..you're adviced
Here (south-america) we've got this "popular phrase" -sorry about MY english- and I'm wonder if it exist as a "pop-phrase" in english, too:

"Coma mierda: millones de moscas no pueden estar equivocadas"

..translated it means:
"Eat shit: millons of flies cannot be wrong"

that's all thanks in advance,
 
Old 02-02-2006, 01:25 PM   #2
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I've never heard it before... but I like it! :
 
Old 02-02-2006, 03:15 PM   #3
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Quote:
Originally Posted by minike
"Coma mierda: millones de moscas no pueden estar equivocadas"

..translated it means:
"Eat shit: millons of flies cannot be wrong"
Jaja. No lo puedo creer... ĦEs 1ra vez que la escucho!
 
Old 02-02-2006, 03:43 PM   #4
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I speak fluent Spanish, but was wondering why I hadn't heard the phrase... it must be because I only speak Spain's dialect...
 
Old 02-02-2006, 05:17 PM   #5
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(..so, it won't be world-wide usable..)
I tell now why I ask about that phrase .. important: it's NOT my intention to offend anyone, just make people think about "alternatives"
I had the GrEaT idea of changing the phrase's words "eat" to "use", "shit" to "windows" and "flies" to "users", being the resulting string:

"Use Windows: millons of users cannot be wrong"

.. but it seems the phrase is popular only in the latin-american planet, so it make no cense to use it translated ..
worse: if the original one is unknown, the direct effect will be a windoze promotion...and that's not my idea.
I would like to have a win-version of the phrase pirnted on a sticker, just to put it in the rear of my car..
 
Old 02-02-2006, 06:04 PM   #6
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"Eat S**t, millions of Windows Users can't be wrong"

"Use Windows, millions of S**ts cant be wrong"

how would they go in Spanish
or even German

floppy
 
Old 02-03-2006, 09:43 PM   #7
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I've actually never heard this either, and I also speak(or spoke, it's been a while) fluent spanish. Granted, I really don't think this is the kind of phrase they would teach you at an immersion elementary school
 
Old 02-04-2006, 01:41 PM   #8
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For what it is worth, I saw this as a graffito on a toilet stall wall in Scotland in 1973.

However I am not aware of it as a popular phrase.
 
  


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