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Lost in Translation Forty One

September 22, 2009
13:28 PM

When you are in a French restaurant and look like you have finished a course the waiter will come up and raise an eyebrow and say “Terminé ?” meanining -of course – not are you terminated (i.e dead) but merely finished with your entreé.
It does beg the question though, about how the French must have felt when young Schwartzenegger burst on the world with his macho “Terminator”.
Instead of conveying the image of a lethal killing machine it probably meant, to them, something like “The Boy who ate up ALL his dinner.
Good Boy Arnold!

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