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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:07 PM
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Who can translate this? Amnesty International Switzerland's new ad


Appears very powerful ... what does it say?
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:10 PM
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1. "It doesn't happen here ... at least not yet."
Edited on Mon Jun-12-06 07:19 PM by TahitiNut
(That's my idiomatic translation.) :shrug:

"aber jetzt" literally translates to "however now" or "but now" ... but it's idiomatic.
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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:15 PM
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5. Thank you
Quite a powerful message, indeed.
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:12 PM
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2. "It doesn't happen here...yet"
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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:17 PM
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9. Thank you n/t
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:13 PM
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3. "It can't happen here...for now"
is the gist.
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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:17 PM
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10. Thank you n/t
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:14 PM
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4. I don't know
"It's in Swiss," Dan Quayle. :evilgrin:
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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:16 PM
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7. ROFL!!
Priceless answer. Thanks for the laugh!
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wryter2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 11:56 AM
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33. You're welcome n/t
n/t
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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:16 PM
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6. US version of the ad : it happens in Guantanamo already, what's next ?
Edited on Mon Jun-12-06 07:17 PM by tocqueville
nt
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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:17 PM
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8. Do you have a link for that?
That's a good ad.
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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:18 PM
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11. I just invented it, propose it to Amnesty
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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:25 PM
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12. Appears they have the graphics for that already




I don't read German, so I don't know what it says.

The rest of the series is here. http://amnesty.ch/d/emind/2006/nichthieraberjetzt/01.html
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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:28 PM
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14. the translation from French gives : It happens. Not here, but Now.
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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:25 PM
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13. aah they already thought of it
Edited on Mon Jun-12-06 07:32 PM by tocqueville
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mooseprime Donating Member (129 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:43 PM
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15. my take is a bit different
i read the sign to mean "it's not happening here, but it is happening now."
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:45 PM
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16. Welcome to DU, Mooseprime!
:toast:
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mooseprime Donating Member (129 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:49 PM
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19. that's
very kind, thanks. i've been around a long time, i just haven't had anything to add till now.
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:57 PM
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20. You have broken the proverbial "cherry." Now you can post anything you
want!
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mooseprime Donating Member (129 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 11:54 PM
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31. yikes!
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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:46 PM
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17. agrees, "jetz" means "now" not "yet"
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mooseprime Donating Member (129 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 07:48 PM
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18. yes
if the meaning were "not yet," it would have been "noch nicht." the "aber" is used in a contrastive sense.
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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 08:00 PM
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21. Welcome mooseprime
Glad you found this thread worth replying to. :)
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mooseprime Donating Member (129 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 08:16 PM
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23. thanks
for your welcome. it's not about worth replying to, it's about having something constructive to add really.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 08:41 PM
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24. Welcome & that IS the definitive translation
Herzliches willkommen!
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mooseprime Donating Member (129 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 09:15 PM
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27. schoenen
dank!
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 11:49 PM
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30. Opps! You're right. (My high school German failed me.)
:cry:
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-13-06 09:09 AM
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32. Hi mooseprime!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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mooseprime Donating Member (129 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 08:10 PM
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22. maybe
we should look into getting them reprinted here so we can put them everywhere. of course we'd probably want to change the caption to something more like "this is happening here and it is happening right now."
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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 08:48 PM
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25. notice the way the posters were made
they are taken exactly at the same place and angle than where the actors played the role. It's so well done that sometimes it lokks like you are looking through an empty frame. So If you want to do the same in the US you have to find an agency that can recreate the trick locally (or hire the Swiss agency). The idea is to present the situation as if you had it "live" in FRONT OF YOU.

I can imagine that using that trick at a known view as Mt Rushmore, Statue of Liberty etc... would make the Republican party go ballistic....
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mooseprime Donating Member (129 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 08:53 PM
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26. yes
the graphics are truly brilliant. i just don't think it's the swiss who need the lesson.
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SaveAmerica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 09:37 PM
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28. I don't know, but you misspelled Amnety, I would freak the first time
Edited on Mon Jun-12-06 09:41 PM by SaveAmerica
I saw that live, it looks so real.
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Sydnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-12-06 09:45 PM
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29. I should have consulted the freeptionary first! LOL


You are correct about the ads though. It would really freak me out to see those ads "lve" too.
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