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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Samwise on December 17, 2006, 11:59:11 AM
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I\'m translating a letter and there\'s a sentence that confuses me a bit. Here it is:
"My parents are involved in labor for their livelihood."
What the Christ does that mean exactly? That the parents work for a living?
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That means the person who wrote it isn\'t that great at grammar ;)
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Yeah, it\'s some Indian dude who translated from Indian to Engrish. But do you have a suggestion as to what it means?
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It wasnt me IT WASNT MEEEEEE
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his parents are slaves
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I\'m translating a letter and there\'s a sentence that confuses me a bit. Here it is:
"My parents are involved in labor for their livelihood."
What the Christ does that mean exactly? That the parents work for a living?
That they work to stay alive, and to stay afloat. Pretty much like you said, they work for a living. He might also mean labor as more specific, like manual labor as opposed to just plain work.
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what Bozco said
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As an addendum to what bozco said, if he looked up translation for certain words, he could also mean \'in labor\' to mean in organization of labor. Management/employment firms/unions or such, but that\'s far less likely that him just meaning \'they work for a living\'....
What\'s the context of the sentence?
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Thanks for all the suggestions so far. :)
What\'s the context of the sentence?
There\'s no context really. The letter didn\'t speak of anything like it before, nor after. So that\'s all I\'ve got and it\'s been giving me a headache trying to figure out how to translate it best.
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His parents are giving birth.
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I think it just means that they are doing like blue collar work or are laborers to support themselves. Its hard to put it in full context when I haven\'t seen the rest of the letter. But its understandable if you don\'t want to post the full letter.
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I think it just means that they are doing like blue collar work or are laborers to support themselves. Its hard to put it in full context when I haven\'t seen the rest of the letter. But its understandable if you don\'t want to post the full letter.
No, it\'s not that I don\'t want to post the letter, it\'s just there\'s no need. Because that sentence is all there is about the parents. Very weird. All I know is that:
1) They\'re probably in India
2) They must be poor