a ridiculously small omelet :)

Question

Hello friends,

There is a sentence example in one of my books ...... but its Spanish translation given in the book seems rather absurd to me. Please look at this sentence in English:

They gave us a ridiculously small omelet.

And the Spanish translation for this sentence is given as *"nos dieron una tortilla ridícula" **

Now as per me this is an incorrect translation. If translated back it would mean, they gave us a ridiculous omelet.......if we look at the original sentence ..it doesn't say anywhere that the omelet itself is ridiculous..for all we know it may be a very dilicious omelet but a ridiculously small one..

Now, according to me we should translate it as

Nos dieron una tortilla ridículamente pequeña.

Because the main adjective should be small (not ridiculous) ..telling us that the noun la tortilla is small (pequeña) not ridiculous ..and further the adverb ridículamente qualifies the adjective and tells us that the omelet is not just small but ridiculously small.

And I have seen this problem with many books where the sentences are very poorly translated and can make a new student completely dazed and stupefied and the student just keeps scratching his head..... Whenever one feels any such iregularity with his /her sentence examples ,, it is better to seek clarification from some one who has a reasonable comand over the language.

Happy learning

:) Hope they didn't have to pay a lot of money for it. - actorgirl, Mar 25, 2014

haha ,, I paid lot of money for these books and most of them are not too good. desgraciadamente - 00b055e0, Mar 25, 2014

:( that's too bad...but I meant the omelet. :) - actorgirl, Mar 25, 2014

ohh ,, Hahaha - 00b055e0, Mar 25, 2014

:) - actorgirl, Mar 25, 2014

Answer 1

"Nos dieron una tortilla ridículamente pequeña." Eso es lo que yo traduje de la frase en cuestión.

si señor, tiene razon ,,, esta es lo que debe ser la traducción correcta según yo. - 00b055e0, Mar 25, 2014