Help with language check - French and Spanish

Mr Q · Post by **Mr Q** » Thu, 30 Mar 2006 1:57 pm

Would greatly appreciate it if someone who is a native French or Spanish speaker could confirm if the following phrases which were translated using an online translator are correct:

Le coeur peut voir ce que les yeux ne peuvent pas

El corazón puede ver lo que los ojos pueden no

I believe the original is in French.

dot dot dot · Post by **dot dot dot** » Thu, 30 Mar 2006 3:10 pm

First one is in French, second is Spanish, both are correct, it is saying: The heart can see what the eyes cannot.

Eric

Baron Greenback · Post by **Baron Greenback** » Thu, 30 Mar 2006 3:16 pm

Eric I have to say I have always admired the Dutch for their language skills, most of the Dutch people I have met can speak better English than native English people.

(I lived in Portsmouth for a while where they attacked the house of a pediatrician because they thought he was a pedophile

)

And now I am impressed by your fluency in French & Spanish. Please go to the top of the class

Mr Q · Post by **Mr Q** » Thu, 30 Mar 2006 3:43 pm

Thanks for your comments.

I have received feedback from a reliable source that the Spanish one should be

El corazón puede ver lo que los ojos no pueden

dot dot dot · Post by **dot dot dot** » Fri, 31 Mar 2006 3:24 pm

Thanks Baron,

guess it is one of our few good characteristics....

Q, your reliable source is correct indeed, no pueden is the way to go.

Eric

Plavt · Post by **Plavt** » Fri, 31 Mar 2006 4:31 pm

Baron Greenback wrote: (I lived in Portsmouth for a while where they attacked the house of a pediatrician because they thought he was a pedophile )

Why does that not surprise me? We are becoming a society rife with morons who do not read, do not think, do not consider others, learn another language- no way. A little off topic but there is still what might be called a 'colonial attitude' here that everybody in the world speaks English.

Plavt.

Quasimodo · Post by **Quasimodo** » Fri, 31 Mar 2006 7:01 pm

Plavt wrote:
Baron Greenback wrote: (I lived in Portsmouth for a while where they attacked the house of a pediatrician because they thought he was a pedophile )
Why does that not surprise me? We are becoming a society rife with morons who do not read, do not think, do not consider others, learn another language- no way. A little off topic but there is still what might be called a 'colonial attitude' here that everybody in the world speaks English.

Plavt.

Which gives us the in!!!

Taking it one step further, Baron. Are paedophiles in the UK known for hanging their sick obesssion on a neon sign outside their house?

Mr Q · Post by **Mr Q** » Tue, 04 Apr 2006 4:02 pm

Kudos to a lady from the other board who has pointed out the original phrase

"On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943

However, it doesn't sound so poetic when translated into Spanish.

Would anyone be able to offer an original Spanish proverb with similar meaning?

References:
http://www.saint-exupery.org/
• Citations
• Le Petit Prince

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
"Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cÅ“ur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
o Translation: "Here is my secret. It is very simple: One does not see well but with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eye."
o Source: Chapter XXI
"Mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le cÅ“ur."
o Translation: "But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart."
o Source: Chapter XXV

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