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Skriven 2007-07-19 22:48:59 av Dan Ceppa (1:138/666.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Alexander Koryagin
Ärende: flying soucer shooting
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-> On 17 Jul 07  18:59:56, Alexander Koryagin got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: flying soucer shooting

 DC> Well, for one, it's not that as it's not done at Area 51  . . .  :)

 AK> An article in the paper must have a cool title. ;) It seems to me the
 AK> world of media has lost something not having me in the front rows. ;=)

Mewspapers have been getting too cute with their headlines.  They 
either inflate the importance of the article, or worse, make 
very silly grammatical errors.  

 ak>> competition when the participants shoot from their guns at the special
 ak>> small plates which are hurl across them.
 xx>>                        ^^^^^^^^^^^  sb:  hurled in front
 
 ak>> 1. How do you call such a sport?
 DC> "What do you call such a sport?"
 ak>> 2. How do you call a man who participates in this kind of competition?
 DC> "What do you call someone who . . . "

 AK> How perfectly awful. I'll try to swallow it. ;)
 
Well, that's the way the language works!  
 
 DC> The object thrown is usually termed as a "clay pigeon".

 AK> But it really looks like a plate. I wonder is it possible that nobody
 AK> calls it a 'plate'? Plates are the very perfect objects as for hurling
 AK> as for smashing. May be, at least, in the informal speech? The matter

I've never heard them termed that way,  

 AK> is that a "clay pigeon" imho sounds a bit lubberly, slow and heavy when
 AK> I am going to tell the reader about a certain heroic man who is a quick
 AK> and experienced shooter.

They move faster than you think!  

 AK> BTW is a 'clay pigeon' == a 'skeet'?

"Skeet" is the name of the sport.  "Skeet", I believe, is Swedish 
for "shoot".  I do know that skeet targets are smaller than the 
clay pigeons used in trap shooting.  


 AK> So the sentence will be like this:

 AK> ...The boy nodded seriously. This man can be trusted in this matter.
 AK> He was an experienced and brave man: a hunter, traveller and sportsman
 AK> - a skeet shooter. Many times he participated in competitions and won
 AK> prizes and medals.

 AK> How it sounds? 
 xx> "How does it sound?"  

 AK> If you will speak about a style keep in the mind that
 AK> the boy is 11 years old. ;-)


 AK> PS: But the translator is not. ;)

Then, the boy's version would work.  


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