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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 04:14 AM
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Anyone here speak Spanish?
Edited on Wed May-18-11 04:15 AM by Syrinx
I just watched this Youtube video of the Tuscaloosa tornado. It's one of the scariest ones I've seen.

I could probably guess the gist of it, but I'm wondering if someone could translate for me what the people are saying.

Thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sZJBxHiCRs
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 05:04 AM
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1. "holy shit, holy shit, holy shit"
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 05:06 AM
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2. so my original guess was indeed correct?
:)
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 07:09 AM
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8. I didn't hear them say that.
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 07:19 AM
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11. Poetic license. n/t
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 08:05 AM
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13. I'm going to have to recommend to the poetry board that your license is revoked :)
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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 05:30 AM
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3. I don't know. But that's some amzing footage. nt
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 06:46 AM
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4. I agree
kick for video

:)
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July Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 06:49 AM
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5. I could only make out a little of it.
Between the wind and the speed of the main speaker's speech, I could only catch bits here and there.

Near the beginning when the male speaker is yelling, he's saying either "Get in the bathtub!" or "Get in the bathroom!" (Same word for both.) Talking to someone named Silvia.

After the tornado passes, he says, "we survived" and a woman says, loosely translated, "What a mess!" -- she uses the word "feo," ("ugly") to describe the scene.

It would take me (not a native speaker) a while to try to understand more than that.
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July Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 06:58 AM
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6. Forgot to say:
There were numerous "Oh, my God"s during the video.
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 07:02 AM
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7. thank you so much
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Shagbark Hickory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 07:09 AM
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9. Anything in particular, kind of a long video to give you a transcript.
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RegieRocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 07:16 AM
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10. Que habla espanol muy poquito
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-18-11 07:40 AM
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12. Because I don't know it
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 04:52 AM
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14. kick for possible translation
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a la izquierda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-20-11 06:02 AM
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15. Well, one of the male voices early on is saying...
let's go. And it sounds like he said let's get to the bathroom (makes sense).
I'm fluent in Spanish, but I really couldn't tell most of the time. At one point, when the room is dark, a man says "It's already passed." He mentions something about the apartment across the street, and that it passed over their house.

It's hard to tell without seeing who the folks are talking to. And the background noise doesn't help.
Sorry, someone else may be of more use. :)
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