Thread: Get fuzzy - translations from los dibujos

remolonear: 2. To be idle, to refuse stirring, from sloth and indolence.

chungo/chunga...in Spain: not good,

1. horrible, nasty (informal) (persona); lousy (cosa)

• la cosa está chunga -> it's a real *****

I can't help, although I did do my trick of typing the words in Google Images (an awful lot of the pictures were Frank Zappa).

I like to check out the comics, too. I go to http://www.gocomics.com/ and look at Baldo in English and Spanish. I also like Condorito, but it has no English translation, so I have to take questions to my teacher. That works out well because Condorito is easy, but Baldo has a lot of slang.

exxcentrica,

Thanks for the definitions. I had looked them up earlier but after your reply, I realized that I was putting a comma between gafas and chungas, and therefore interpreting 'chungas' as a noun instead of an adjective. oops. (No wonder I was so confused!) So the translation is actually, 'lousy glasses'

However, the second one stil doesn't makes sense to me because of the word 'pero.' Adding 'but' to that sentence doesn't make sense in English. (but may in spanish, I'm just not sure of the significance) So, please, help me navigate what I'm seeing. I believe that you are indicating that remolonear in this case indicates laziness, so this:

Satchel: El Mastín suizo remoloneó un poco, pero al final acabó por abstenerse.

should be translated as

Satchel: The swiss Mastiff was a little lazy, but at the end, he ended up abstaining.

It's that 'but' that throws me off. Since it follows that he abstained because he was lazy, I would expect 'and' not 'but.' So, I would expect it to read:

"The swiss Mastiff was a little lazy and in the end he ended up abstaining. "
or
El Mastín suizoremoloneó un poco, y al final acabó por abstenerse.

I'm sure I'm missing something completely obvious, but could you shed some light on what I'm seeing?

Thanks!
Will

P.S. Gernt, thanks for the link. My favorite comics to read in spanish are Calvin and Hobbes and Get Fuzzy. C&H is pretty easy, but Get Fuzzy seems to be my version of 'Baldo'... the slang knocks me down every time! (and, alas, I have no teacher to ask!)

I often don't understand Get Fuzzy in English.

My teacher is a professional translator. (It's not really a class, we just chat about an hour a week). She's Peruvian, but she works with a Cuban and a Mexican to field a lot of calls from all over the world. Her mother is from Barcelona and was a Spanish teacher in Peru. You'd think she'd know everything. Still, it is very normal for me to bring a comic strip with something that stumps her.

I love Get Fuzzy...and I really don't like many comic strips. I read this and wondered if it's possible to simply find the corresponding strip in English and answer your questions that way...