TRANSLATION ENGLISH SWISS

People often ask me if I collect anything. I do, but it's not a tangible collection the way a collection of toy figurines, or Swiss posters, or snowglobes would. I "collect" words that aren't translatable in English. Not just unusual words, but words that are don't have an equivalent in English, for these show us where the holes are in our thought patterns. The classic example used to illustrate...Source : Fast Company Now (subscribe)

I’ve just read ‘Heidi’ in German for the first time ever, which is odd, considering my bilingual state! As a child, I had a delightfully-illustrated English translation, long gone, alas, how I’d like to see some of those pictures again. However, this blog is not about the pleasures of reading it in the original – I’d been hoping for Swiss dialect, and was disappointed. It did engage me, though. I...Source : An Awfully Big Blog Adventure (subscribe)

Like a Swiss clock, Sega announced a new addition to the Yakuza franchise at every Tokyo Games Show edition, for the past few years. This year makes no difference, and series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi took the floor to give to the world Ryu Ga Gotoku 4: Densetu wo Tsugu Mono. The rough, if not very rough English translation used is Yakuza 4: Inheritor of the Legend. Sega's effort put in Yakuza...Source : USA Shopping Online @ 2dayplaza.com (subscribe)

I received the following short message from someone in Switzerland that i met when they were studying in Singapore and was hoping someone could help.

Hello.. what would the translation of this sentence be. I need some help as it should have the exact meaning.. "If you had a grain of decency.

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Her name is Gabi Mueller, and she is a citizen of Switzerland and America because her mother is Swiss and her father is American. She has a translation job that turns into an undercover job to help rescue a prominent Jew. ...

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Hello everybody, I was wondering if someone could help me translate this tiny bit of swiss german (basel swiss german I think) into english: [FONT='luc.