Eerie Cuties in Spanish.

[Ten]

Here's something I found in an ad while doing an image search for Q-bee. It's Eerie cuties in Spanish. Only up to near the end of chapter 6 though.
http://subcultura.es/webcomic/eerie_cuties/1

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Favorite one so far
http://subcultura.es/webcomic/eerie_cuties/31
Nina says lice instead of cooties...

[Bear]

Its also availible in French and Hungarian. There are flag link buttons to the other language pages under the comic, just above the news section of the main page.

[Ten]

Okay... apparently I can't see tiny little flags...

[Tenjen]

nobodies really going to notice those >>

[Cassius_Draken]

Also, I am not very happy with the Spanish used for the translation. I think it's way too "Spain Spanish" instead of a more neutral version.

It´s a spanish traduction for spanish readers, so they use what you call "spain spanish" because is what the spanish readers want...

[albert.aribaud]

@Ten: As far as I know, we don't have a Spanish equivalent for "cooties", though I don't think the word they used would be appropriate either. I would prefer to go with the Spanish for "fleas", which would make more sense.

Had the same problem for the French translation, and went the same 'fleas' route with Giz' assent ... Cooties is really a cultural specific, and we simply don't have the equivalent -- which makes me think I should start a page on the French site to collect all those cultural gaps I met in EC.

[JoseB]

@Ten: As far as I know, we don't have a Spanish equivalent for "cooties", though I don't think the word they used would be appropriate either. I would prefer to go with the Spanish for "fleas", which would make more sense.

Also, I am not very happy with the Spanish used for the translation. I think it's way too "Spain Spanish" instead of a more neutral version.

On the other hand, I have found out that the Spanish translation of "cooties" for "piojos" (lice) corresponds EXACTLY with the origin of the word "cooties", in the first place.

The word "cooties" came into use during World War I, as a name for the parasites that soldiers very easily caught in the trenches, especially body lice. Quoting from Wikipedia (I know, I know... but this corresponds well with what I know from other sources):

<<Lieut. Pat O'Brien's 1918 memoir Outwitting the Hun: My Escape from a German Prison Camp refers to "cooties," meaning body lice, which in his case had been caught in the prison camp in Courtrai. Lice were of course rife in the trenches on both sides of the conflict, and highly contagious.>>

<<The lice of the First World War trenches nicknamed "cooties" were also known as "arithmetic bugs," because, "they added to our troubles, subtracted from our pleasures, divided our attention, and multiplied like hell.">>

Body lice are the vector that transmits epidemic typhus, among other rather nasty diseases ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_lice ).

From "The Straight Dope": http://www.straightdope.com/columns/rea ... rd-cooties

From "World Wide Words": http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-coo2.htm (it also says that the first mention in print of the word "cooties" dates to 1917).

Those links all mention that the original meaning of "cooties" was body lice.

I imagine that the translator into Spanish checked the meaning of "cooties" and used it for what its original meaning was In fact, FWIW, here is the entry for "cooties" in a popular English-Spanish dictionary:

cootie
s. piojo (Fam.)

So, I would say that it is not at all surprising that the translators into Spanish ended up using the word "piojos" ("lice") to translate "cooties".

Re: the type of Spanish used in the translation -- What Cassius_Draken said. In fact, they don't even use "standard Spain Spanish" ... I can identify the dialect used in the translation as the one typical of the centre-north of the country; some of the grammatical structures used, as well as some of the words, are most definitely dialectal and sound weird to me (I am from Spain, btw).

Just my 2 eurocent!