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Which editing is natural?

 
 
Reply Sat 5 Oct, 2013 01:40 am

Here's a Chinglish slogan:
Forbidden amuse yourself

My editings are:
1) Self-amusement forbidden
2) Forbid to amuse yourself
3) Forbid amusing yorself
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roger
 
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Reply Sat 5 Oct, 2013 02:02 am
@oristarA,
3) is most natural. None sound expecially natural to me. In fact, I'm not entirely sure of the meaning.
contrex
 
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Reply Sat 5 Oct, 2013 03:21 am
Perhaps it means "It is forbidden to amuse oneself"?
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oristarA
 
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Reply Sat 5 Oct, 2013 06:58 am
@roger,
roger wrote:

3) is most natural. None sound expecially natural to me. In fact, I'm not entirely sure of the meaning.


This:
Click the following link (because direct image link is not allowed)

http://www.pic-upload.de/view-20920897/hfs.jpg.html
contrex
 
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Reply Sat 5 Oct, 2013 07:35 am
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:

Click the following link (because direct image link is not allowed)

Who says?

http://www7.pic-upload.de/05.10.13/6861n5z24yu.jpg

In case that image is blocked in some places, it consists of a photograph of a plastic-encased printout hung on a wall. It is a cartoon drawing of an elephant with an obviously erect penis, to which it is applying its trunk. (For self- amusement purposes?) Underneath, in what looks like Lucida Typewriter are the words "Forbidden amuse yourself".
oristarA
 
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Reply Sat 5 Oct, 2013 09:16 am
@contrex,
contrex wrote:

oristarA wrote:

Click the following link (because direct image link is not allowed)

Who says?

http://www7.pic-upload.de/05.10.13/6861n5z24yu.jpg

In case that image is blocked in some places, it consists of a photograph of a plastic-encased printout hung on a wall. It is a cartoon drawing of an elephant with an obviously erect penis, to which it is applying its trunk. (For self- amusement purposes?) Underneath, in what looks like Lucida Typewriter are the words "Forbidden amuse yourself".


"Forbidden amuse yourself" looks ungrammatical.
contrex
 
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Reply Sat 5 Oct, 2013 10:12 am
@oristarA,
It is completely ungrammatical.
oristarA
 
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Reply Sat 5 Oct, 2013 05:27 pm
@contrex,
contrex wrote:

It is completely ungrammatical.


Please make it grammatical.
contrex
 
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Reply Sat 5 Oct, 2013 05:34 pm
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:

contrex wrote:

It is completely ungrammatical.


Please make it grammatical.


I already did.
oristarA
 
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Reply Sat 5 Oct, 2013 06:22 pm
@contrex,
contrex wrote:


I already did.



This? "It is forbidden to amuse oneself" looks like a common sentence, not like an eye-catching slogan.
roger
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Reply Sat 5 Oct, 2013 06:30 pm
@oristarA,
Well, you didn't specify eye catching slogan. You asked which sounded most natural.

Auto erotisim prohibited

Not gramatical, but slogans are often not.
oristarA
 
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Reply Sat 5 Oct, 2013 10:48 pm
@roger,
roger wrote:

Well, you didn't specify eye catching slogan. You asked which sounded most natural.

Auto erotisim prohibited

Not gramatical, but slogans are often not.


Auto erotisim prohibited sounds like having sex in car (a very popular tabloids story in China).
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JTT
 
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Reply Fri 11 Oct, 2013 08:23 pm
@oristarA,
Quote:
"Forbidden amuse yourself" looks ungrammatical.


Quote:
Please make it grammatical.


Forbidden to amuse yourself.
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