identify the language

[EternalOptimist]

i tried portugese and spanish


Ta chateadinho cachorrinho




i think it might be 'you cheating cockroach'

[Moscow Mule]

Puppy or whelp. Apparently.

http://translate.google.co.uk/?hl=en&tab=wT#auto|en|cachorrinho

[Drewster]

i tried portugese and spanish


Ta chateadinho cachorrinho




i think it might be 'you cheating cockroach'

Where were you when the young lady said it......... always a good clue

[EternalOptimist]

Where were you when the young lady said it......... always a good clue

It's a guy I pillaged over the weekend , in a game. (Red Barchetta)

seems I got the longitude right, but not the latitude, he's Brazil not USA.

Its allways a good sign , I feel, when the opposition call you a cat headed puppy.

[Churchill]

It's a guy I pillaged over the weekend , in a game. (Red Barchetta)

seems I got the longitude right, but not the latitude, he's Brazil not USA.

Its allways a good sign , I feel, when the opposition call you a cat headed puppy.

Son of a bitch!

[EternalOptimist]

Son of a bitch!

really ?

that could explain why the free online translator wouldnt cope.

I'll write it out 100 times on the forum before morning

[OwlHoot]

i tried portugese and spanish


Ta chateadinho cachorrinho

i think it might be 'you cheating cockroach'

Been doing some digging, and "chateado" is Portugese for "upset". See http://translate.google.com/#pt|en|chateado%0A. Also, from a few examples I found, it appears that "chateadinho" is a kind of made-up diminutive meaning "a bit upset" (probably ironically, i.e. "a *lot* upset)

Likewise, "cachorro" is Portugese for "dog", and I presume cachorrinho is another jocular diminutive.

So, although the word "Ta" is still a mystery, I'd translate the phrase as something like "a yappy little dog".

edit: Or maybe it's the Portugese equivalent of "not a happy bunny", i.e. "a slightly upset little dog"

[Not So Wise]

Been doing some digging, and "chateado" is Portugese for "upset". See http://translate.google.com/#pt|en|chateado%0A. Also, from a few examples I found, it appears that "chateadinho" is a kind of made-up diminutive meaning "a bit upset" (probably ironically, i.e. "a *lot* upset)

Likewise, "cachorro" is Portugese for "dog", and I presume cachorrinho is another jocular diminutive.

So, although the word "Ta" is still a mystery, I'd translate the phrase as something like "a yappy little dog".

edit: Or maybe it's the Portugese equivalent of "not a happy bunny", i.e. "a slightly upset little dog"

It's a phase/insult, you can rarely do direct translation of those types of things at least not without making it sound weird/stupid, like take Churchill's translation, translate that directly back into another lnguage and you end up with "son of a female dog" which will leave people scratching their heads

Best to just stick to Churchill's translation as it translates the meaning/intention the best

[hyperD]

It could be "Tá instead of Ta and if you assume the "ho" is a diminutive suffix the text literally translates into:

"Right annoy bitch"

which probably is simply an insulting phrase in Brazillian Portuguese.

[OwlHoot]

It could be "Tá instead of Ta and if you assume the "ho" is a diminutive suffix the text literally translates into:

"Right annoy bitch"

which probably is simply an insulting phrase in Brazillian Portuguese.

I tried Tá and another couple of accents in Google Translate, but each came back untranslated.

BTW, on the subject of accented letters, is there a smart way in Windows to type them on a UK keyboard, short of copying and pasting individual letters from a carefully prepared "sample" text file?

I know about ALT NUM hash hex.. and all that geeky numeric keyboard DOS carp, but I mean an easy to remember way or better still some smart handy add-on (like the brilliant and indispensable WordWeb for spell checking) ?