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Thread: A redneck from Texas needs lanquage help!

  1. 05-31-2012, 12:54 AM #1
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    Default A redneck from Texas needs lanquage help!

    Name: geoff 049.jpg Views: 321 Size: 49.4 KBHello, All! I have had this pretty thing for years on display. The scales seem to be a variant of red Bakelite with inlays. The blade has some big proclamations upon the front face. This is obviously a German-made razor, but the blade etch is not. I know Barbas Duras means for tough beards, which makes sense with the grind. Is this Spanish? Italian? Seems easier to ask you all than get a bunch of Rosetta Stone CD's!
    Any help with interpetation and info/experience with the maker would be appreciated! Thanks in advance! .....Tom
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    Google translate auto-detect ftw:

    What I can read is:
    acciaio diamante
    questo rasoio fa leggermente qualunque barba dura

    Which means:
    steel diamond
    This razor makes shaving every last bit

    BTW, it says it's Italian
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    Pinche Gringo BOLLIO!!!

    No habla usted Italiano?

    Pbbbbbbbbt. Me either.

    FINE lookin razor though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wullie View Post
    Pinche Gringo BOLLIO!!!

    No habla usted Italiano?

    Pbbbbbbbbt. Me either.

    FINE lookin razor though.
    OH! THATS What it means! Thanks for your reply!
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    Google's translator is always imprecise. It would sound better so:

    Diamond steel
    This razor softly shaves every tough and bad (evil?) beard.

    I don't know the Moneta (it means "coin") brand, but during 1950-1970 the German makers made many razors for Italy, using slogans in Italian, as happened for the USA in the first half of the last century.
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    It is indeed Italian but
    -It looks as if there are two more wordsmafter "dura", does it say "e cattiva"?
    -The automatic translation is less than accurate

    I would translate it as
    "Diamond Steel. This razor shaves easily any tough and nasty beard". (assuming the last two words are what I guessed from the photo)

    It's a very odd way (and a bit funny) of writing that sentence, nobody would use the word "cattiva" (naughty, bad) to describe a type of beard and you wouldn't use "fa" (does) for shaves. It sounds as if it has been written by somebody with a limited knowledge of the Italian language. Being a German razor that may well be possible.
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    It says "If you can read this YOU ARE TAKING OUR JOBS!!!!"

    haha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CSquare View Post
    It is indeed Italian but
    -It looks as if there are two more wordsmafter "dura", does it say "e cattiva"?
    -The automatic translation is less than accurate

    I would translate it as
    "Diamond Steel. This razor shaves easily any tough and nasty beard". (assuming the last two words are what I guessed from the photo)

    It's a very odd way (and a bit funny) of writing that sentence, nobody would use the word "cattiva" (naughty, bad) to describe a type of beard and you wouldn't use "fa" (does) for shaves. It sounds as if it has been written by somebody with a limited knowledge of the Italian language. Being a German razor that may well be possible.
    Your translation is good. Italian grammar is very different to English & rarely literally comparable. It makes sense to Italians tho.
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    Thanks for the translations! I am prouder of it now and actually feel a bit more "Worldly"! Just another cool thing about this forum!
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    no that would be if it was in spanish lol or french for my area with the university near by theres a lot of french people in the area that i never noticed before.

    Nice looking razor btw hope she shaves that evil beard off well lol
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