An oldie but a goodie . . .
Once attributed to the late Kurt Vonnegut, though in fact written by Mary Schmich and published in the Chicago Tribune as a column in 1997, I was reminded of this when I recently advised Nog to do one thing every day that scared him (and no, living with me doesn’t count 😉 ).
Then today I found this rather nice video of the Baz Luhrmann version.
casa azahar 
ps
Some of the Portuguese subtitles aren’t quite accurate translations …
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Subtitles are an interesting…’art’. The people who do them have to make decisions about reading time and vocabulary choice. (I lived in Brazil for a year, so I can read portuguese too) A couple of years ago I saw a brilliant Brazilian film called ‘Saudade do Futuro” — a film about the migrants from the Northeast of Brazil living in Sao Paulo, and it focused on their music…especially a form of poetry they did, playing a tune and improvising fun, crazy lyrics as they went along. For that film, the English sub-titles were a dream…the ‘writers’ creatively wrote comparable lines for the untranslatable slang bits, or tweaked things so that the English titles rhymed as well.
This is a long comment, but I was so totally thinking about this last night — I watched the Japanese animated film “Spirited Away” in Japanese with English titles (instead of English with captions, which I have often done when I showed it to ESL students). Subtle differences in translation…
🙂
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Well, I wouldn’t say I can actually read Portuguese, but it is similar enough to Spanish that I can usually understand it. I don’t expect it will be as easy to understand spoken Portuguese when I go to Lisbon.
Yeah, subtitles … I often wonder who gets these jobs and why? Sometimes it’s like they’ve just put the script through a Google translator. Nice to hear about it being done well.
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Eat my shorts! How could you not know I would get 7 right! Ay Carumba! Doah!!
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Doah is right. I presume you meant to leave that comment over here, zoomer? Or is this yet another example of you ‘being funny’? 😛
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