# Translating Dennis the Menace

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translating-dennis-the-menace/669710>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 26, 2013, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translating-dennis-the-menace/669710 "2013-09-26T09:47:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translating-dennis-the-menace/669710/21 "2013-10-02T18:38:53Z")

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> [@FriarTed](#):
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> Btw, I’m assuming the girl in question is Gina & not Margaret.

The girl was not identified, but she had shorter hair than Gina, and not in sausage curls like Margaret.

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translating-dennis-the-menace/669710/22 "2013-10-18T08:35:42Z")

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I’d really like to have someone give a translation into Russian.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translating-dennis-the-menace/669710/23 "2013-10-18T08:43:35Z")

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> [@dougie\_monty](#):
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> I’d really like to have someone give a translation into Russian.

“Вот, видешь? Именно по-_этому_ ты не должен драться с девочкой!”

Literally: “There, you see? _That’s_ why you shouldn’t fight with a girl!”

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translating-dennis-the-menace/669710/24 "2013-10-18T16:47:37Z")

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Спасибо! 🙂  
(I only regret that I couldn’t add a smiley with a fur hat and handlebar mustache.)

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**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translating-dennis-the-menace/669710/25 "2013-10-18T18:23:55Z")

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There’s always going to be something lost because language is intertwined with culture. You can’t separate them and keep the original meaning.

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2013, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translating-dennis-the-menace/669710/26 "2013-10-19T08:59:48Z")

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I suppose there is, to some extent. I do the best I can.

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**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translating-dennis-the-menace/669710/27 "2013-10-19T17:49:12Z")

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A friend of mine who speaks Greek translated the phrase; I’ve transliterated his rendition thus:

_“Blapis? Gia to na mi tipas anachoritzi!”_

I did not think to ask him the word-by-word translation of this sentence; I am more familiar with Biblical Greek than the modern language. Any help, please?

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2013, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/translating-dennis-the-menace/669710/28 "2013-10-19T19:31:36Z")

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> [@Superhal](#):
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> There’s always going to be something lost because language is intertwined with culture. You can’t separate them and keep the original meaning.

True. The Klingon translation for the given comic should be something along the lines of “Damn, that girl is _hot_ for you, bro.”

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