How to say:Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious in Spanish

[Maria S.]

This word is also the name of a song in the musical "Mary Poppins" by Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman. The song describes how using the word is a miraculous way to talk oneself out of difficult situations and even be able to change one's mood.

The Spanish version for the word is:

supercalifragilisticoexpialidoso

Marina, could you pronounce this one for us in one of your future podcasts?

¡Cómo es frívolo!

[gtappend]

Originally Posted by Maria S.

The Spanish version for the word is:
supercalifragilisticoexpialidoso

Here are two more versions, perhaps we can come up with a global list?

German: Superkalifragilistischexpiallegorisch
Italian: supercalifragilistichespiralidoso

Also in the song it is spoken backwards, which in English is pronounced:
dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus

[greytop]

Saw this and thought of you

Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which
produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little,
which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath.
This made him. ....
A super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitos.

[richardksa]

Groan!! But I will use it.

[Maria S.]

Originally Posted by greytop

Saw this and thought of you
A super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitos.[/SIZE][/FONT]

Thanks.
I feel so honoured.
Or should I write "honored". Which side are you on?

[greytop]

Originally Posted by Maria S.

Thanks.
I feel so honoured.
Or should I write "honored". Which side are you on?

I definitely walk on pavements, have a boot and a bonnet on my car and prefer "s" to "z" between i & e.
I'm a european mongrel, or English as we like to be called.

[Maria S.]

Originally Posted by greytop

I definitely walk on pavements, have a boot and a bonnet on my car and prefer "s" to "z" between i & e.
I'm a european mongrel, or English as we like to be called.

I used to walk on pavements or go to the cinema. I used to live in a flat as well when I was in Germany under "British English" rules.
Then I moved to the States and was told otherwise. One of my employers near Baltimore, MD, threatened to fire me (easily done during the recession in the early 90s), because I kept typing "labour" instead of "labor" for the workmen's billing sheets.

I adapted quickly.

What would you have done?

[greytop]

Originally Posted by Maria S.

I used to walk on pavements or go to the cinema. I used to live in a flat as well when I was in Germany under "British English" rules.
Then I moved to the States and was told otherwise. One of my employers near Baltimore, MD, threatened to fire me (easily done during the recession in the early 90s), because I kept typing "labour" instead of "labor" for the workmen's billing sheets.

I adapted quickly.

What would you have done?

No problem - if I was working in Spain I'd have learnt Spanish so why not American English in America? I have spent longish periods working in Italy and Norway and in both instances I was able to communicate, albeit haltingly, in the relevant language. Amazing how quick it goes once you leave though!
Now I'm trying to communicate in Spanish because I live here but as age gets a grip of the neurons it certainly gets harder
I think the real preoblems start when you think that what you do/say is so important that everyone else is wrong. Bit of that going on round the world at present.
Enough of this. I've just cooked some pimientos de padrone that are calling out to be eaten.

[Maria S.]

Originally Posted by greytop

I think the real preoblems start when you think that what you do/say is so important that everyone else is wrong. Bit of that going on round the world at present.

I would like to hear more about your last comment. Do you mean "¡Cómo es frívolo!" in politics, human relations, friendships, etc.?

Does your opinion contradict with Jean-Paul Satre's "The word is mightier than the sword." in TODAY'S world?

[greytop]

Originally Posted by Maria S.

I would like to hear more about your last comment. Do you mean "¡Cómo es frívolo!" in politics, human relations, friendships, etc.?

What I mean is that everyone sees things from their own perspective. Many arguments are because of this, although each side is sure they have logic and truth on their side. Often this is blind faith in what they stand for.

Originally Posted by Maria S.

Does your opinion contradict with Jean-Paul Satre's "The pen? is mightier than the sword." in TODAY'S world?

Probably not. I've always understood that to mean you get further by thinking & communicating than by fighting. Hard to put into practice when someone has a gun to your head but long term he's right and wars or fights rarely solve much except to make people talk in the end.
By the way the pimientos de padrón were great Still lacking a bit of heat as it's early in the growing season.

[gtappend]

Originally Posted by Maria S.

Marina, could you pronounce this one for us in one of your future podcasts?

Setting challenges like this has a habit of coming back to you - so the other day I visited Maria S. to record her pronouncing the German version.

And here is the result:
supercali_de.mp3 (15,7kB, 4sec)

[kazuya]

heo,

The worso a gamee seka I t'sunk iknna Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Kazuya.

[Carola]

Originally Posted by Maria S.

This word is also the name of a song in the musical "Mary Poppins" by Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman. The song describes how using the word is a miraculous way to talk oneself out of difficult situations and even be able to change one's mood.

The Spanish version for the word is:

supercalifragilisticoexpialidoso

Marina, could you pronounce this one for us in one of your future podcasts?

¡Cómo es frívolo!

Pregúnatale a Mary Poppins .
Aquí te dejo el link de la canción en castellano:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5N5Z...eature=related

[Energy jobs]

I think kids respond to live-action more than we give them credit for. Children's television programming in my day featured real people: Romper Room, Mr Dress-up, The Friendly Giant, Mr Rogers. Even Sesame Street muppets interacted with regular folks much more frequently than they do today. It's bemoaned that it's increasingly harder to hold a child's interest, but technologically advanced animation (no matter its appeal to adults and its commercial success) may not be the answer. Maybe kids don't like animation as much as we think they do; they're simply not given many other options.

[gary]

the reason that less and less real people are being used - like the Tweenies - is that it is a pretty straightforward job to redub the sountrack and sell on to every country in the world...

I know, cynical old git.... bah humbug!!

[ValenciaSon]

Originally Posted by greytop

I definitely walk on pavements, have a boot and a bonnet on my car and prefer "s" to "z" between i & e.
I'm a european mongrel, or English as we like to be called.

Nobody's perfect

[ValenciaSon]

Originally Posted by Carola

Pregúnatale a Mary Poppins .
Aquí te dejo el link de la canción en castellano:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5N5Z...eature=related

De eso tolero solo en dosis muy pequeñas.

[gtappend]

Originally Posted by gary

the reason that less and less real people are being used - like the Tweenies - is that it is a pretty straightforward job to redub the sountrack and sell on to every country in the world...

And I always thought that is was because it was easier to switch actors without the viewers realising.

Unlike with Miss Ellie

[speige]

What does supercali.... actually mean in english? haha

I don't think you can translate something if you don't even know what it means! haha

[gastephen]

Originally Posted by speige

What does supercali.... actually mean in english? haha

I don't think you can translate something if you don't even know what it means! haha

According to Richard M. Sherman, co-writer of the song with his brother, Robert, the word was created by them in two weeks, mostly out of double-talk.

The roots of the word have been defined as follows: super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expiali- "to atone", and docious- "educable", with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educability through delicate beauty."

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According to the 1964 Walt Disney film, it is defined as "what you say when you don't know what to say".

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

y en español: Supercalifragilisticoexpialidoso