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viernes, 1 de agosto de 2025

GATO ENTERITO y otros MALAPROPISMOS

En mi última revisión de mi artículo de traducciones de Disney puse lo siguiente acerca de un malapropismo que cometen los esbirros de Cruella:

To guzzle fue vertido como
“tragar” y collywobbles como “delirio de entremés”. De nuevo se ponen en boca de
patanes expresiones cultas, aquí la latina delirium tremens, aunque en este caso, rizando el rizo, se introduce un chiste en la intervención del personaje, a quien se le hace
confundir tremens con “entremés”. Es lo que se llama un malapropismo, que suele ocurrir cuando la gente de clase baja o media-baja (o los niños, o los extranjeros) intentan pronunciar un cultismo u otra palabra a la que no están acostumbrad0s. Ya abriré el melón de los malapropismos más adelante en este blog, pero para muestra un botón: una típica “maruja” fue a ver al médico por un dolor de vientre, le diagnosticaron GASTROENTERITIS DISENTERIFORME, y les dijo a sus amigas, en el bar de la esquina, al día siguiente:

“Me dice el doctor que tengo un GATO ENTERITO DE UNIFORME…” LMAO.

Bueno, damas y caballeros y seres no binaries, es la hora de abrir el melón de los malapropismos. Lo prometido es deuda. Ya mencionamos el DELIRIO DE ENTREMÉS y el GATO ENTERITO DE UNIFORME… Y estos dos sólo son el pico del iceberg. Y el iceberg de los malapropismos es colosal. Sólo os daremos una pequeña muestra (vamos a ver cuán pequeña) de lapsus cometidos por niños, extranjeros y gente de clase baja o media-baja. Y, de paso, llevarnos un huevo de risas…

Miss Malaprop

El término malapropismo viene de Miss Malaprop, personaje del teatro dieciochesco británico, una nueva rica con delirios de grandeza. Por ejemplo, dice “a nice DERANGEMENT of EPITAPHS” en vez de “a nice ARRANGEMENT of EPITHETS.” He aquí más malapropismos de la Miss Malaprop original:

 “ILLITERATE him quite from your memory”, analfabeto, por “OBLITERATE him from your memory”

 “the very PINEAPPLE of politeness”, en vez de “the very PINNACLE”, el pináculo, el súmmum de la cortesía

“as headstrong as an ALLEGORY on the banks of the Nile”. Aquí Miss Malaprop se equivoca DOS veces. Dice “alegoría” por ALLIGATOR, pero en el Nilo no hay aligatores, sino cocodrilos…

Samcho Panza

Este agricultor analfabeto, a pesar de tener el refranero español entero en su Minerva, no está acostumbrado a los cultismos de su amigo Alonso Quijano. Y Cervantes lo refleja con un huevo de malapropismos.

 Lo que para don Quijote es BÁLSAMO DE FIERABRÁS (un héroe de sus novelas: se trata de una poción con efecto placebo que Alonso toma para curarse) su escudero lo traduce como bálsamo del FEO BLAS. Si Dulcinea es para el caballero una SOBERANA señora, el bueno de Sancho la rebaja a SOBAJADA señora (hoy diríamos sobada)…

Minako Aino

La gracia es que Minako, que ha vivido en Londres unos cuantos años, ha vuelto a Tokio y está volviendo a acostumbrarse al japonés. Y, obviamente, se lía cada dos por tres. Sus malapropismos se convirtieron en un chiste recurrente. Por ejemplo éstos:

Cara de ASNO (dicho de un chico de cara alargada), por cara de CABALLO

A CHOCOLATE a day keeps the doctor away (se nota que también Minako peca de gula 🙂 )

  • “¡La justicia es ciega, pero no sorda!”: (En lugar de “La justicia es ciega”).
  • “¡Al que madruga, Dios lo ayuda… a levantarse temprano!”: (En lugar de la frase completa).
  • “¡El amor es ciego, pero no estúpido!”: (En lugar de la frase completa).
  • “¡El valiente llega hasta la meta, y el cobarde… se queda mirando!”: (En lugar de la frase completa).

Malapropismos en la consulta del doctor

En ningún lugar como en la consulta del doctor, con tantos tecnicismos, se comenten más malapropismos. Ya hemos hablado del GATO ENTERITO DE UNIFORME, pero los médicos y las doctoras ya se han acostumbrado a que sus pacientes metan la pata.

Tengo diabetes y me inyectan URSULINA (por lo visto las monjas esas hacen milagros)

La HUELLA GENITAL (DIGITAL, DACTILAR)

Las dos primeras veces aborté los FÉRETROS y a la tercera tuvieron que hacerme la NECESARIA (FETOS, CESÁREA)

El ÁCIDO ÚNICO (ÚRICO)

Un ESCARNIO de la cabeza y del pecho (ESCÁNER)

Le han tenido que operar del corazón y ponerle en el pecho un PASACALLES (MARCAPASOS)

Me ha salido un bulto en los GITANALES (GENITALES)

Me ha salido un bulto en los TENTÁCULOS (TESTÍCULOS, o en buen español los HUEVOS)

Pastillas FLUORESCENTES (EFERVESCENTES), “de las que hacen psssh en el agua”

Otros malapropismos

Saddam JESUSÍN por Saddam HUSSEIN. Si es que lo de JESUSÍN es una buena ironía…

OSTENTÓREO, de Jesús Gil (fusión de OSTENTOSO y de ESTENTÓREO –grandilocuente, por Esténtor, el heraldo de los griegos en la Guerra de Troya, que tenía la voz tan alta como cincuenta hombres normales. El tal Esténtor desafió a Hermes, su homólogo del Olimpo, a un concurso de gritos… perdió Esténtor y terminó reventando. Ved la canción del grupo Gigatrón con el título “Esténtor” al respecto).

Los dos Bushes, el sénior y el júnior, se han hecho famosos por sus malapropismos, los llamados Bushismos. Por ejemplo:

Where WINGS TAKE DREAM (DREAMS TAKE WING)

“There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, ‘Fool me once, shame on…shame on you.’ Fool me—you can’t get fooled again.” (FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU; FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME)

El dúo cómico argentino Les Luthiers suele jugar mucho con los malapropismos. Por ejemplo, uno de ellos habla del AVANT-GARDE (LAS VANGUARDIAS, en francés) y el otro responde: “AVA GARDNER, qué divina hembra, ‘el animal más bello del mundo’…”

Estar hecho un OBELISCO (por BASILISCO). Esta criatura mágica ha pasado a la fama internacional gracias a Salazar Slytherin (ver el caso de Davy Jones en mi artículo de traducci0nes de Disney), pero no era muy conocida hace décadas.

NENUCO (por EUNUCO): es verdad que los eunucos de los harenes parecen bebés gigantes, con la voz de pito, calvitos y gorditos (como Varys de Juego de Tronos)

 

jueves, 30 de marzo de 2017

WHAT LITTLE SANDRA MISTOOK

Here are a few slightly foolish mistakes I commonly made as a Baby-Spice-twintailed kid, even as a toddler, and some of them in my nerdy tomboy short-haired adolescence, because of similarities between these concepts' names or shapes! You wouldn't believe it, seriously!

1) Pulp Fiction is Full Monty.
CAUSE: Lexical similarity between "Pulp" and "Full" (four-letter English words with -UL- in the middle), in popular 1990s Anglophone comedies with a full-English title written in condensed bold all caps in the same red-and-yellow colour scheme, and whose highlight was the leading cast performing a catchy signature dance.
DEBUNKED: By reading reviews and watching footage from both films, I came to realise that, in spite of the ostensible similarities between the words Pulp and Full, and between the respective poster titles, both films are essentially as different as chalk is from cheese: the former is a snarky and blood-spluttering Tarantino flick noir; the latter a socially critical British comedy about stripteasing former steelworkers.
2) Black Lagoon is Gurren Lagann.
CAUSE: Lexical similarity between "Lagoon" and "Lagann," and between a few characters' hair colour (especially the respective female leads') across series.
DEBUNKED: By reading anime reviews and watching footage from both anime series, I came to realise that, in spite of the ostensible similarities between the words Lagoon and Lagann, and between the heroines Revy and Yoko, both series are essentially as different as chalk is from cheese: one of them (Gurren Lagann) being a light and soft sci-fi epic, the other (Black Lagoon) a dark and edgy realistic series noir.
3) The left of others equals my left; ditto for the right.
CAUSE: "The left is your writing hand, also the arm with the birthmarks" was how my Spanish- and Swedish-speaking elders helped me clear my left-right confusion, unfortunately and unwittingly creating a further bungle. If I were facing someone else, even my mirror image or a fictional character, I would say that their eye facing my left side is their left eye.
DEBUNKED: The gunshot on Lord Nelson's left shoulder at Trafalgar proved the most influential clue in this aspect: from looking at depictions of the wounded and dying admiral, I realized that my right faced and still faces Horatio's (and everyone else's) left.
4) Woodsorrels are real clovers.
CAUSE: Clovers on screen and in storybooks look exactly like woodsorrels (Oxalis stricta) with heart-shaped (instead of circular) leaves.
DEBUNKED: Elsa Beskow's The Flower Festival (Blomsterfesten) set the record straight in my mind by featuring woodsorrels and clovers personified in the same illustration; the former with heart-shaped leaves and yellow star-shaped flowers, the latter with circular leaves and red or white pompom flowers.
5) Littlefinger is the bald eunuch... another name for Varys/the Spider, right?
CAUSE: I was 15 when I began the first GoT novel, and it turns out that I had a limit back then (add that I was constantly on an uphill struggle with Maths and bullies!) for holding up all the names and relationships! I had already got to make enough of an effort to tell Jaime and Cersei from Visy and Dany, remembering that the Targs were a lighter shade of blond than the Lannisters and (Targs) had violet eyes instead of green! Add the Stark children, the Baratheon brothers, and the other Lannisters, aside from Drogo, Jorah, and the handmaids across the pond, and the ensuing relationship grid was a good-sized mind map the kind I have and then had for a Shakespearean play or mythological pantheon... when we got to court, to the Red Keep, it came as no surprise that I messed up with Varys and Petyr!!
DEBUNKED: Reading the graphic novels and watching the TV series helped me get the characters right in my mind's eye and have a clear, non-confusing picture of who each and one of them was. Again, these two proved as different as chalk is from cheese... or maybe the Spider and the Mockingbird are not that different at heart?

jueves, 25 de junio de 2015

WORTHLESS WESTEROSIS

This Worthless filk, my first one so far, is a sob story pile-up that contains spoilers for Westeros as both live-action series and novels. The plot bunny arose as soon as I discovered the song and found out that, changing a few place names and other details, these might as well be the sob stories of some old friends of mine. And thus, I wondered... what if those people were given the chance to relive the darkest nights of their souls? The ideas of using Varys and Petyr as a Greek chorus and employing a talk show with them as hosts as framing device (instead of the TV in the spoken interludes of the original song) arose as a critique of present-day talk shows rife with people telling their overly depressing sob stories (heartbreak, separation from relatives, parental abuse, repression from the government, obstructive in-laws and/or bureaucrats, sexual harassment, corruption, repo men... I hate the sound of all that!). What if one was forced to tell one's sob story, against one's will? How scarring would that prove?

Its frame, to be considered, is a talk show in which Varys and Littlefinger, the presenters/hosts, use a memory-absorbing electric-chair-kinda-device to read the minds and find out about the sorrows of the talkshow guests. Which goes from slight innuendoes to outright mind-rape (Jaime, Brienne, but mostly Barristan/Arstan being the targets of reliving their darkest hours) to cheerful backfire (as the Dornish, who know how the device works, turning it on its head by accentuating their positive memories instead).

WORTHLESS WESTEROSIS
or
TALK SHOW ROAST À LA WESTEROS

(Standing in a glass cabin before the electric chair-like device, they are standing on the screen in this order: Ser Bronn of the Blackwater, Alayne Stone [AKA Sansa Stark], Ser Jorah Mormont, Ser Jaime Lannister, Brienne of Tarth, the Gravedigger [Sandor Clegane], Oberyn Nymeros Martell, Ellaria Sand, Arstan Whitebeard [AKA Ser Barristan Selmy]. Varys and LF take Bronn out of the glass cabin and strap him to the device. One by one, the guests are taken out of the cabin and strapped to the device, their flashbacks being projected onto a screen at the other end of the headband cables.)

VARYS: Ladies and men of rank, you are all welcome once more to an exciting installment of Worthless Westerosis.
PETYR: That's right, Varys, and today we have got some very special guests on our show this evening. To start with, a middle-aged sellsword risen from the obscurity of the ranks: Ser Bronn of the Blackwater.

(Varys and Petyr take Bronn out. Caption reads: SER BRONN OF THE BLACKWATER, UPSTART SELLSWORD IN HIS FORTIES)

SER BRONN OF THE BLACKWATER:
I can't take this kinda pressure...
I must confess one more war campaign
would be the last one all along...

VARYS/PETYR:
Worthless!

(They free Bronn and strap Alayne to the device.)

(Caption: ALAYNE STONE, ADOLESCENT HEIRESS TO THE VALE OF ARRYN, REAL IDENTITY CLASSIFIED)

ALAYNE STONE:
I just can't... I just can't... I just can't seem to get started!
Don't have the heart to dance on the roses,
with all that is past and gone...

VARYS/PETYR:
Worthless!

ALAYNE STONE (twitching in pain as she resists, the screen shows Joffrey abusing Sansa and blurs for a while):
And there is nothing I can do about it!

VARYS/PETYR:
Worthless!

ALAYNE STONE (weary, falling unconscious):
It is in vain to resist...

VARYS/PETYR:
Worthless! Worthless! Worthless!

(They free Alayne and strap Jorah to the device)

VARYS: A crestfallen middle-aged former knight turned sellsword, Ser Jorah Mormont.

(Caption: SER JORAH MORMONT, CRIMINAL FORMERLY IN EXILE, NOW OFFICER OF THE SECOND SONS, IN HIS FIFTIETH DECADE OF AGE)

SER JORAH MORMONT:
I'm from Bear Island, a Mormont...
but I've been all o'er every Essosi shore,
as a sellsword, from Braavos to Lys...
(He grows pale and winces)
Qohor, Tyrosh, Myr, and Pentos,
into the steppes and across to the Red Wastes,
then Slaver's Bay, and never at ease...

(They free Jorah and strap Jaime, with the golden hand, to the device)

(Caption: SER JAIME LANNISTER, FORMER MILITARY LEADER AND HEIR TO THE RENOWNED LANNISTER SURNAME, IN HIS LATE THIRTIES)

SER JAIME LANNISTER:
I once led a host into battle...
I must confess I'm impressed how I did it,
I wonder how close that I came...
(Light-headed, he sees that the room is reeling as another surge is sent through him. The picture seen on the screen is of Locke severing his right arm, which makes Jaime shout in pain)
Now I get a sinking sensation...
I was the hope of my clan; out of sight, out of mind...
So much for fortune and fame!

(They free Jaime, who is exhausted and reeling, and strap Brienne to the chair as Jaime looks mournfully at her)

PETYR: And now another young lady, though a more unconventional one... what was her name again?
BRIENNE: Brienne... (interrupted by Varys)
VARYS: Brienne of Tarth, a Stormlands lass who has been raised for and accustomed to real-life warfare.

(Caption: BRIENNE OF TARTH, TWENTY-SOMETHING MAIDEN KNIGHT)

BRIENNE OF TARTH (in searing pain, the screen shows Renly getting married to Margaery in the Highgarden sept):
Once I was at my liege lord's wedding!
Once I was at my liege lord's wedding!
He kept forgetting, his selfishness letting
his life through my hands slip away...

(The last picture on the screen is of Renly dying in Brienne's arms. They free her, sobbing and pale, and strap the Gravedigger)

(Caption: THE GRAVEDIGGER OF THE SEPT ON THE QUIET ISLE, REAL IDENTITY CLASSIFIED)

THE GRAVEDIGGER:
I'm employed in a septry graveyard...
I beg your pardon... It's quite hard enough
just living with what I learned today...

VARYS/PETYR:
Worthless!

VARYS: And now for something completely different... the Red Viper of Dorne and his significant other, both of them equally scandalous, will hopefully reveal something of their cathartic backstories.

(Oberyn and Ellaria hop out of the cabin together in a back-to-back pose, shocking both hosts. Willingly, Oberyn sits on the vacant chair and straps the headband on himself. Ironically, the pics on his screen show, instead of Elia's gruesome death, a good times montage of both Oberyn and Ellaria together)

(Caption: OBERYN NYMEROS MARTELL, MIDDLE-AGED SPARE TO THE THRONE OF DORNE, AKA THE RED VIPER)

OBERYN NYMEROS MARTELL (cheerfully, unaffected)
Once sailed to Lys with my sweetheart!
Everything sunny, brandy sweet as honey,
and ladies we will never forget...

(Varys and Petyr are startled. No sooner have they freed the Dornishman that his other half, like Oberyn, willingly straps herself. Good times montage once more...)

(Caption: ELLARIA SAND, OBERYN'S SIGNIFICANT OTHER, YOUNG OF YEARS, DORNISH, FEMALE)

ELLARIA SAND (cheerfully, unaffected)
Oberyn, let's go there once more!
Oberyn, let's go there once more!
From Sunspear to Starfall, the rumour is we
have a hand in the lay of the land...
Can't we now set sail again?

(The tune becomes more ominous as the last person, an old sellsword officer who calls himself Arstan Whitebeard, is freed and strapped as Oberyn and Ellaria leave together. To the hosts' surprise, the flashbacks are of a Kingsguard in golden armour and white cloak)

(Caption; ARSTAN WHITEBEARD, SEPTUAGENARIAN OUTCAST, REAL IDENTITY CLASSIFIED)

ARSTAN WHITEBEARD (depressed, wall-eyed, ready for suicide)
I was leader of the Kingsguard...
(He winces, as the screen shows Joffrey on the Iron Throne)
Who would believe they would love me and leave
me to eke out a living elsewhere?
Once, in a hall in the Red Keep,
I showed the new king what he had to do, I was happy till I heard him say...
(sighing, as Varys and Petyr untie him): "You're worthless..." (he falls unconscious on the pavement)

martes, 4 de marzo de 2014

GAME OF THRONES AU VII: ARYA IN WONDERLAND

ARYA IN WONDERLAND

This AU retells, rather loosely, the plot of Carroll's immortal novel with a Westerosi cast. When a worn-out Arya falls asleep at class, she notices a young white-haired guard/soldier who keeps on checking his Nuremberg egg (early modern pocket watch). She decides to follow him into another dimension, rife with decadence and random weirdness...

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

  • Alice Liddell: Arya Stark
  • Lorina Liddell (older sister): Sansa Stark
  • Red Queen of Hearts: Cersei Lannister
  • Red King of Hearts: Joffrey Baratheon
  • Rose Gardeners: Loras and Margaery Tyrell
  • Captain of the Royal Guard: Renly Baratheon
  • White Queen of Chess: Daenerys Targaryen
  • White Rabbit: "Reek", AKA Theon Greyjoy
  • White Knight: Jorah Mormont
  • Cheshire Cat: Ygritte
  • Blue Caterpillar: Euron Greyjoy
  • Mad Hatter: Roose Bolton
  • March Hare: Ramsay Bolton-Snow
  • Bill the Lizard: Jon Snow
  • Tweedledum and Tweedledee: Robert and Stannis Baratheon
  • Walrus: Varys
  • Carpenter: Petyr Baelish