Agreed in principle, Chuck, with the further rider that it might not work
with many British English speakers either, were it not for the fact that the
phrase is 'lifted' from ... well I'll just leave it to Google - you only
need to look at the first of 88200 hits!
To Manuel: Chuck's comments aside (and they *are* appropriate) I was very
pleased to see your familiarity with that phrase!
--
Piers
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chuck Norcutt
Sent: 25 July 2006 13:50
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Short translation?
"despond" is a verb so the word here should be "despondency".
Colloquially, it might not work with a lot of Americans. Except those from
the south (like Walt) where slough/slew/slue is a fairly common word,
probably half wouldn't know the meaning of "slough" and a quarter probably
wouldn't know the meaning of "despondency".
"In the swamp/dregs/gutter of depression" might be understood by 80 or 90
percent. Of course, OM'ers, being generally smarter and more literate,
would have no problem with any rendition. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Manuel Viet wrote:
>
> The translation as a whole could be "this guy, he could be into the
> slough of despond, I ain't gonna give him 1 penny worth of work".
>
> (unsure my translation renders the colloquial feeling accurately).
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