Timeline for What gets lost in translation?
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| Jun 16, 2020 at 11:03 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 23, 2017 at 10:23 | comment | added | WGroleau | There is an Italian language SE. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 6:51 | comment | added | Joe Kissling | @L.Dutch your guess is as good as mine. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 6:48 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | The closest italian word I can recall sounding like flauto is fallito, which is the precise translation of fail. Maybe it was a local slang popped up after some foreigner mispelled fallito with flauto... | |
| May 23, 2017 at 6:28 | comment | added | Joe Kissling | @L.Dutch I'm 50/50 on wether or not they were pulling my leg or not. This was in Loano Italy and I had made friends with some locals. It could be local slang but I'm really not sure. My girlfriend at the time (she was Italian) said it was a real thing. Though, she dumped me on my birthday via text so I don't know if she could be trusted. In any case they sure did use it as slang for fail. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 6:17 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | Flauto? This sounds pretty new to me, and I speak italian for more than 30 years... | |
| May 23, 2017 at 4:23 | history | answered | Joe Kissling | CC BY-SA 3.0 |