in portuguese, i just came across “por que o vírus da gripe não tem amigos? porque ele é uma má influenza”

translation: “why does the flu virus have no friends? because it’s a bad influenza!”(Influence)

i think it could work in english but sounds better in portuguese.

  • kambusha@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    Que dijo un pes al otro pes? Nada!

    What did one fish say to another fish? Nothing!

    Nada means nothing, but it also means swim, coming from the verb “nadar”.

    It also reminds of the Simpsons episode where Homer eats the candy that was stuck to the babysitter’s butt. He gets accused of sexual harassment, and his world is in chaos with news reporters outside. Marge tries to comfort him by saying that’ll blow over soon enough. Homer then says, “nothing ever blows over for me.” We then see the helicopter outside blow their car over.

    Now, I watched the above episode probably 5 times or so, but in German. I never understood that part. It felt super random to just show his car flip over. Years later I finally saw it in English, and understood the joke. In the German version, I think he says, “Für mich ist nie etwas vorbei.” - > “Nothing is ever over for me.”