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Source text in English

- "I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."

- "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

- "You can observe a lot just by watchin'."

- "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

- "I can't concentrate when I'm thinking."

- "The future ain't what it used to be."

- "I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."

- "We're lost, but we're making good time."

- "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."

- "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore."

- "It's like deja-vu, all over again."

- "It ain't over till it's over."

- Mrs. Lindsay: "You certainly look cool." Yogi Berra: "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself."

- "If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be."

There were 12 entries submitted in this pair during the submission phase.

Entries submitted in this pair were rated on a per-segment basis. Listed below are all submitted translations of each individual source text segment.

Submitted segment translations

Translations submitted for each source text segment are listed below. Segments have had surrounding punctuation stripped, and the resulting identical segments have been grouped together, so each listed translation should differ, but the difference may be subtle (eg. internal punctuation or diacritics).

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Source text segment #4

- "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
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+37 | -1
It's [supposedly] funny because on the surface both propositions can't be true. If nobody goes there anymore, it wouldn't be crowded. Of course it isn't meant literally.
+17
A classic example of irony, attempting to demonstrate that, although the restaurant is more popular than ever, the few original and regular customers (read: the ones who matter, and were patrons long before its popularity) no longer bother.
+16 | -1
It means that the regular customs are not going there anymore because a lot of new ones are going there.
+7
On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant.
+7
The point here seems to be that nobody *deliberately* goes there any more, because the place is too crowded. People going there nowadays are only newcomers who wait in line to be able to say "been there, done that" later.
+6 | -1
One could assume that the person who is saying "nobody" is referring to people like him/her which might belong to a particular segment of society, such as upper class or intellectuals or artists, instead it is full of the wrong type of people for him/her
+2
Other point of view could be: If we know a restaurant is always crowded and we would have to wait for a long time for a table, we could decide not go. This happens in real life...!
+7 | -5
Nice one! Of course, it can't be true! The truth appears when you substitute "None of the people I know go" for "nobody goes".
Nimeni nu mai merge acolo, este prea aglomerat. Adica oamenilor nu le place aglomeratia.
Nimeni nu mai merge acolo, este prea aglomerat. Adica oamenilor nu le place aglomeratia.

Translations of this segment (12 total; 10 unique)

Nitko tamo više ne ide. Prevelika je gužva
Tamo više nitko ne izlazi. Previše je ljudi
Više nitko nejde tamo. Prevelika gužva je
Nitko više ne ide tamo. Pretrpano je
Tamo više nitko ne zalazi. Prevelika je gužva
Tamo više nitko ne ide. Gužva je prevelika
Tamo vise nitko ne ide. Prevelika je guzva
Toliko je pusto da nema mjesta za ljude
4. Tamo više nitko ne ide- prevelika je gužva
Tamo više nitko ne ide. Previše ljudi
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