Zdravím, měl bych takový dotaz. Překládám takovou kratší sci-fi věc o speleoložce, co prolézá jeskyněmi na jedné kolonizované těžební planetě kdesi ve vzdálené galaxii, číhají tam na ni různá monstra a tak podobně... S termíny jako silt screw a podobně jsem si nějak poradil, ale je tu jedna věc, kde si nejsem jistý, a nechci tam dát nějakou kravinu.

Jde o slovo cam ve smyslu vačka. Níže pár příkladů užití:

She felt a surge of vindication, hot in her belly, as she wedged the first cam into what her visor color- coded a “third- tier” crack and watched as it blinked once, twice, then flipped to “optimal.” Grinning, she added another cam and a nut, then tied onto the anchor and tested it with her weight.

Occasionally, she opted to put in a new bolt rather than trust an old one, or to load a cam or two into a good crack in the wall, and she watched as Em flagged the ones she passed over as unsafe.

The ledge wasn’t directly below where she’d placed the bolt, though, and so she needed to pause to add a cam before she could crawl her way across to solid ground again.

Her right hand was still half numb, and she fumbled to work the cam into the nearest serviceable crevice.

She sagged in relief, the cam taking her weight easily.

Přijde mi prostě divné, že by se do praskliny (trhliny) ve skále upevňovala vačka. A že by se pak do toho místa přidávala další vačka a pak matice... Netušíte, jak by se slovo cam mělo v tomto případě přeložit správně, aby to dávalo smysl? Za každou radu budu vděčný.

WITTGENSTEIN: Tak tam vraž posilovače a dobrý, ne?

Tak to budou nějaké speciální trubice pro lepší opálení nohou nebo ksichtu.

A ještě teda tohle: https://www.facebook.com/552665231468503/photos/a.587700011298358/1761154963952851/?type=3&theater

Je to do románu, tohohle úryvku:
She flipped the pages faster, through the property section, until she was on the back page, staring at an advertisement for a beauty clinic on the West Cliff. ‘Sun-dome with facial and leg boosters’ it said, and to Siân this seemed like the most heartbreakingly sad phrase she’d ever read this side of the Book of Ecclesiastes.

"Tan Med Ltd has built up an unquestioned reputation for using the best industry acclaimed tanning tubes available and now with dual extreme leg boosters, additionally the tubes are changed regularly to ensure that you get a tan to die for and not to just warm-up!"

WITTGENSTEIN: Krém pro rychlejší a lepší opálení. Na tělo a na obličej je samozřejmě zvlášť.

WITTGENSTEIN: nejsou to mazadla jako toto? https://www.insun.cz/daytona-hyaluron-face-booster-10-ml

Co tak v kontextu solária můžou být "facial and leg boosters"?

každý nápad dobrý :)

pro milovníky slovních hříček - napadá vás, jak přeložit:

‘Sure?’ he asked as he placed her gently on the bed. ‘In the cold light of day?’
‘It’s the warm light of morning,’ she said. ‘And I’m certain.’

postavy se spolu předtím v noci vyspaly - a teď si ráno dávají repete; ten dotaz samozřejmě směřuje k tomu, jestli té minulé noci hrdinka "zpětně a s chladnou hlavou" (in the cold light of day) nelituje

MAKROUSEK: uz vyreseno, dekuji;

prosím o pomoc, jak přeložit do anglickýho jazyka "územní plán, územní plánování". Master plan/planning? Urban plan/planning? teritorrial?

MATHEZ: Neni to neresitelny orisek, akorat to bude v cestine o necem uplne jinem, aby se tam daly uplatnit ceske slovni hricky.

Rad bych poptal preklad popisu vystavy me drahe polovicky; je to neresitelny orisek? Odmena dle domluvy..

PUNNATURAL

Are puns natural? Perhaps we could start with the assumption that they are not. As unnatural exceptions to the rule, they would be little monsters thrown into the natural order of things, or as the etymology of the word suggests, they would be little warnings from a deity, created by our Artist to invite us to devout worship and adoration of this perfect order, in which words and things exist in unquestionable unity. By its perverse logic, the exception would prove the role.
But etymologies are monstrous entomologies that try to make sense of these little bugs called words, the very words that continue bugging and buggering us with their uncanny quality: An ingenious world-revealing word play can turn into a tasteless joke if it is not stored properly in the freezers of our culture that we call museums, just as every beautiful animal can turn into a monster if it has teeth and spikes. The surrealists, with their visual puns and chance encounters, knew this. In their fascination with the material and artificial world of the early twentieth-century they also pushed for an overcoming of the now dry and tasteless distinctions between kitsch and art, reality and fantasy. It is high time to bring their unnatural puns back to the nature, the goddess of the Romantics that breathes life into the teary I’s of poets.
That would be quite an enjoyable punishment for them and for us.

MADIETTA: Dekuju, to jsem hledala.