Laputa in Spanish? (!)
hair...@utdallas.edu
>I'm reading _Gulliver's Travels_ in British Literature and came across
>Laputa the "Flying or Floating Island" in it. In the story Gulliver
>tries to acertain the origins of the word; in a footnote for _Norton
>Anthology_ it says the most likely etymology for Laputa is the Spanish
>la puta, "the whore."
>Was Laputa ever dubbed for Spanish speaking audiences? If so, was the
>original name used?
I don't think it was ever dubbed in Spanish. "La puta" does mean "the
whore" in Spanish but, as my bilingual wife puts it: "It's *very*
derrogatory. We really don't have anything to match it in English.
'Cheap, diseased slut' is closer to the real meaning in Spanish."
On a side note: she has the Totoro hardback book in her second grade
class and she told me it only took one day for her kids to notice the
ad for Laputa in the back and start giggling about it.
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Marc Hairston--Center for Space Sciences--University of Texas at Dallas
hair...@utdallas.edu
Daryel M. Bush
Laputa the "Flying or Floating Island" in it. In the story Gulliver
tries to acertain the origins of the word; in a footnote for _Norton
Anthology_ it says the most likely etymology for Laputa is the Spanish
la puta, "the whore."
Was Laputa ever dubbed for Spanish speaking audiences? If so, was the
original name used? Just curious. ---Daryel
Stainless Steel Rat
Daryel> I'm reading _Gulliver's Travels_ in British Literature and came
Daryel> across Laputa the "Flying or Floating Island" in it. In the story
Daryel> Gulliver tries to acertain the origins of the word; in a footnote
Daryel> for _Norton Anthology_ it says the most likely etymology for Laputa
Daryel> is the Spanish la puta, "the whore."
Bingo!, and a fitting name it is. La Puta (the city) would float from
nation to nation, leeching off the hard-working populace and providing
nothing in return. The floating city in "Laputa" is that same city.
Daryel> Was Laputa ever dubbed for Spanish speaking audiences? If so, was
Daryel> the original name used? Just curious.
I don't know, but look for variations of "Castle in the Sky."
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>Bingo!, and a fitting name it is. La Puta (the city) would float from
>nation to nation, leeching off the hard-working populace and providing
>nothing in return. The floating city in "Laputa" is that same city.
Reminds me of that island in one of Doug Adams's books where the main
characters met Thor. The island supposedly was nonstop party where the
partygoers were generally the fourth generation of the people who were
the original partygoers. The party kept going around and pirating off
party supplies from the cities around a planet. Did that floating
party in the sky ever have a name that Adams gave out?
GL
Gerald "TOASTY!" Leung
DANIEL_RODRIGUEZ_RIUS
> Was Laputa ever dubbed for Spanish speaking audiences? If so, was the
> original name used? Just curious. ---Daryel
In Spain it has not been dubbed yet. But Manga Video Spain has just dubbed
'Porco Rosso' and is going to translate 'Tonari no Totoro', so it's
possible that they dub 'Laputa' in the future.
Daniel
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Iskandar Taib
Stainless Steel Rat <rat...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> "Daryel" == Daryel M Bush <dmb...@tntech.edu> writes:
>
>Daryel> I'm reading _Gulliver's Travels_ in British Literature and came
>Daryel> across Laputa the "Flying or Floating Island" in it. In the story
>Daryel> Gulliver tries to acertain the origins of the word; in a footnote
>Daryel> for _Norton Anthology_ it says the most likely etymology for Laputa
>Daryel> is the Spanish la puta, "the whore."
>
>Bingo!, and a fitting name it is. La Puta (the city) would float from
>nation to nation, leeching off the hard-working populace and providing
>nothing in return. The floating city in "Laputa" is that same city.
Hahaha..
I was watching "Mediterraneo" last night and I actually recognized the
word. Either its the same thing in Italian or they used it because
Sergeant LaRusso had been in Spain before the war..
Pow! pow!
"Hee haw hee haw."
"Silvana! Silvana mia..!"
(Great movie by the way.. _and_ its subbed! ^_^ )
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