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Mini-contest 2012: "Yogi Berra Quotes" » English to French

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Source text in English

- "I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."

- "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

- "You can observe a lot just by watchin'."

- "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

- "I can't concentrate when I'm thinking."

- "The future ain't what it used to be."

- "I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."

- "We're lost, but we're making good time."

- "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."

- "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."

- "It's like deja-vu, all over again."

- "It ain't over till it's over."

- Mrs. Lindsay: "You certainly look cool." Yogi Berra: "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself."

- "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be."

There were 44 entries submitted in this pair during the submission phase.

Entries submitted in this pair were rated on a per-segment basis. Listed below are all submitted translations of each individual source text segment.

Submitted segment translations

Translations submitted for each source text segment are listed below. Segments have had surrounding punctuation stripped, and the resulting identical segments have been grouped together, so each listed translation should differ, but the difference may be subtle (eg. internal punctuation or diacritics).

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Source text segment #10

- "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."
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+20
"{blank} ain't worth a dime" is a set expression. This quote is funny because Yogi inserted "nickel".
+14 | -3
Actually, it is the other way around: a nickel is worth 5 US cents and the dime is worth 10 US cents.
+14 | -4
Money has lost its value.
+9
It's funny because a nickel has never been worth a dime!
+6 | -2
It's not only "ain't worth a dime" that is a set expression here. We should not forget about the other set expression as well - nickel-and-dime (adj.), which means unimportant or involving little money. So the effect of pun is achieved here by means of th
+1
Berra's thoughts on inflation.
+1 | -2
Here I expected some Spanish native to write: "Una rubia ya no vale un duro." "rubia" -"blond"- was the 1 peseta coin, which was golden (blond) due to a copper-nickel alloy, and "duro" was a 5 pesetas coin. A pitty nobody though of it.
-5
Nowadays a dime (10¢) is not enough to buy what used to cost a nickel (5¢ = half)) in the past. Just check the web... in 1926 a new, no-frills, T-model Ford cost only $260.
-8
(I don't know about the value of nickel nor dime, but I suppose this is what it means).
Something can once be very useful. But once the time has passed, it is no longer as worthy.
-13
One has to know that a nickel is 10 US cents and a dime is 5...

Translations of this segment (44 total; 42 unique)

Aujourd’hui, pour vingt euros, t'as plus rien
Une pièce de cinq cents ne vaut plus une pièce de dix cents
Un franc ne vaut plus un centime
Un centime ne vaut plus grand chose aujourd'hui
L'argent n'arrête pas de dévaluer
De nos jours, une pièce d'un cent, ça ne vaut pas cinq cennes
De nos jours, un sou n'est plus un sou
C'est terminé, cinq cents n'en valent plus dix
Une pièce de cinq cents ne vaut même plus une pièce de 10
Un sou n'est plus un sou
Un euro ne vaut plus un sou
10 balles ça vaut plus un rond
Un kopek ne vaut même plus un centime maintenant
Un sou ne vaut même plus un clou en argent
Cinq centimes ne valent plus un sou de nos jours
Un cent ne vaut pas plus d'un centime
Une pièce de 50 centimes ne vaut plus un franc
Un centime ne vaut plus un sou
Un franc ne vaut plus un sou
Ça ne vaut pas un clou
5 cents ne valent plus deux sous
Un euro ne vaut plus un sou de nos jours
Même les clous ne valent plus un radis
Pour cent balles t'as plus rien
Un cinq sous ne vaut plus un dix sous
Les centimes ne valent plus les euros
Pour 5 cents, tu n'as même plus une pièce de 10 cents
un centime ne vaut plus un sou
Le nickel ne vaut plus une centime aujourd'hui
Un franc ne vaut plus un sou maintenant
Un centime ne vaut plus un sou à présent
Un sou ne vaut plus un clou
De nos jours, un sou ne vaut plus un centime
Un sou ne vaut pas plus qu'un kopeck de nos jours
L’argent ne vaut plus un rond
Un cinq sous n'en vaut plus 10 comme avant
Un dix sous ne vaut même pas un cinq sous de nos jours
Un nickel ne vaut plus rien
Je ne donne plus un sou à la valeur de l'argent
Un cinq sous n'en vaut même plus dix
Les dix sous ne valent plus trente sous
Un "rien" ne vaut guère plus qu'un "tu l'auras
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