WotD: sob story

[muckefuck]

1. die Leidensgeschichte
2. de lijdensgeschiedenis
3. la tragedia
4. la tragèdia
5. l'histoire à faire pleurer dans les chaumières
6. y stori ddagreuol
7. an scéal ar an anró
8. 신세타령 (身勢打令)
9. 坎坷故事 kǎnkěgùshi

Example sentences:

1. Erzähl mir keine Leidensgeschichte, ich will nichts drüber wissen!
2. Vertell mij geen lijdensgeschiedenis, ik wil ervan niets weten!
3. No me cuentes ningun dramón; no quiero saber nada de eso.
4. No em contis cap tragèdia; no en vull saber res!
5. Ne me reconte aucune histoire larmoyante; moi, je n'en veux savoir rien!
6. Paid ti â dweud 'tha fi unrhyw stori ddagreuol; dw i ddim eisiau gwybod dim byd amdani!
7. Ná habair aon scéal truamhéalach liom; níl a fhios uaim.
8. 나에게 신세타령하지 마세요! 알고 싶지 못해요!
9. 別告訴我坎坷故事了! 不要知道! Bié gàosong wǒ kǎnkěgùshi! Bú yào zhīdao!

Comments

[keyne.livejournal.com]

What happened to the Welsh?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

It required a trip to the Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru that lives in the other room.

[areia.livejournal.com]

I think I've only ever heard the Dutch word used to describe Christ's suffering. Or, in your translation, "Christ's sob story".

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

what is the source of the French? Is there a particularly lachrymose kind of people who live in chaumières, or is this a class-based thing, like the "music for maids" epithet for forro? Are we dealing with some kind of petit-bourgeois melodrama or similar?

[niemandsrose.livejournal.com]

I *so* wish you would add Japanese to these...

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to provide when I can, and when I can remember ^_-

Here you could say something like 涙をそそる話、namida o sosoru hanashi, "a story that provokes tears", or a お涙ちょうだいもの, o-namida choudai mono, "a 'tears please' thing"; the latter can also be also be "お涙ちょうだい話", o-namida choudai hanashi", but either way with "o-namida choudai" it's far more cynical, as though to say, "Kee-rist, here comes his sob story again ...".

[donncha22.livejournal.com]

dramón, histoire larmoyante, scéal truamhéalach

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

Make it idiomatic in Spanish: "un dramonazo de tres pares de cojones"
Tragedia is too standard!

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

New suggestions:

"cuentos chinos"
"telenovelas" or "culebrones"
"la biblia en verso"

a friend of mine uses
"tragicomedia" and "psicodrama"

The sentences are really funny :)

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

Brazilian Portuguese:
"ladainha"
"papo furado" (for a story that goes on and on)
"colloquio flacido para calentar bovindos"- I think the spelling on this is right, even though I didn't get any google hits searching for it. My spelling in Portuguese is atrocious.

[donncha22.livejournal.com]

"Ne reconte-moi..." recte: Ne me raconte...

"ní a fhios uaim" Bheadh ort "ní" a athrú go "níl" ar a laghad. Tuigim é sin, cé nár chuala mé a leithéid riamh. Déarfainn rud éigin ar nós: "Níl mé ag iarraidh é a chloisteáil.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Cad fén fhoirm dhearfach? An ndearfá "Tá/Teastaíonn a fhios uaim (má/go/srl)..."

[donncha22.livejournal.com]

Cé is mian leis fios a bheith aige?

Ní mór dom fios a bheith agam (an bhfuil tú i ngrá liom nó nach bhfuil, srl.).

[fainic-thu-fein.livejournal.com]

Ní mór dom fios a bheith agam

"Ní mór/ní foláir/caithfidh fios a bheith agam..." a déarfainn féin, ie: gan an "dom" sin.

[fainic-thu-fein.livejournal.com]

Thuigfí thú ach níl cuma nádúrtha ar an abairt sin thuas agat. B'fhearr rud éigin ar nós:

Ná hinis do scéilín beag truamhéalach dhomsa, níl mé ag iarraidh (é) a chloisteáil.