giorgio_2004 opened this issue on Apr 17, 2009 · 25 posts
giorgio_2004 posted Fri, 17 April 2009 at 8:32 AM
I am sure I could win the prize for the Strangest Forum Request of the year for this one, but please bear with me!
Premise: I am from Italy and my written English is far from perfection. With technical or simple sentences, I have no big problems, but, obviously, idiomatic expressions are another league completely.
Target: I want to create a texture for a t-shirt, to be used in a funny picture. My main character, Keilani aka Phantomgirl, is able to pass through the walls, exactly like Kitty Pryde of the X-Men. In her universe, Kei is real, while Kitty is fictional, as in ours. So I would like to have Kei wear a t-shirt which mocks Kitty, but not in an offensive way. I want something "light", almost friendly, and not of bad taste.
The PERFECT Italian sentence would be "Kitty Pryde mi fa un baffo", but I am uncertain about the translation. "I don't give a damn about K. P." seems a bit long and maybe rude. "Bite my dust, K.P.!" could be better but I am not convinced... got the idea? A short sentence, which basically says "I am way better than you" but like in a joke....
Thanks in advance! Merci beaucoup! Grazie mille! Danke! Arigato! Gracias! ki'e <--- this last one is hard
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