Day 83: A Clean Double-Meaning Wedding Toast

Dialogue

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   A

   Don Gildardo, dicen que en Durango no hay boda sin un brindis suyo. ¿Nos echa la mano?

   Don Gildardo, they say there's no wedding in Durango without one of your toasts. Would you give us a hand?

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2. 2
   B

   Lo queremos con doble sentido, pero limpio: van a estar las dos abuelas, y ninguna está sorda.

   We want it full of double meanings, but clean: both grandmothers will be there, and neither of them is deaf.

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3. 3
   C

   Doble sentido con abuelas enfrente es caminar en la cuerda floja. A ver, léanme lo que traen.

   Double meanings in front of grandmothers is walking a tightrope. Go on, read me what you've got.

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4. 4
   A

   “Brindo por la novia, que por fin me echó el lazo”. Por más que suene a rancho, ¿pasa?

   “Here's to the bride, who finally got her lasso around me.” Rustic as it sounds, does it pass?

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5. 5
   C

   Vetado, joven. Por inocente que parezca, la abuela de la novia va a entender que usted se casa a la fuerza.

   Vetoed, young man. However innocent it seems, the bride's grandmother will take it that you're being married off by force.

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6. 6
   B

   Qué bueno, porque el mío es mejor: “Que su amor sea como la carne seca: duradero, bien curado y con su toque de sal”.

   Just as well, because mine is better: “May their love be like dried beef: long-lasting, well cured and with a touch of salt.”

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   C

   Vetado también, señorita. Si bien la carne seca es sagrada aquí, en una boda nadie quiere oír “sal”: van a pensar que los salaron.

   Vetoed as well, miss. Dried beef may be sacred here, but at a wedding nobody wants to hear “salt”: they'll think you've been jinxed.

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8. 8
   A

   Me queda uno: “Que su amor sea de hierro, como el Cerro del Mercado, y que cada yerro se olvide antes de oxidarse”.

   I've got one left: “May their love be made of iron, like the Cerro del Mercado, and may every blunder be forgotten before it can rust.”

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   C

   Ese pasa, joven: “hierro” y “yerro” suenan igual, y no hay abuela que no sepa de los dos.

   That one passes, young man: hierro, iron, and yerro, a blunder, sound the same, and there isn't a grandmother who doesn't know about both.

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10. 10
    B

    Nos falta el remate, don Gildardo: algo solemne, que suene a notaría y haga llorar a las abuelas.

    We still need a finale, Don Gildardo: something solemn that sounds like a notary's office and makes the grandmothers cry.

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    C

    Apunten: “Sea cual fuere el pleito, quien se enojare primero lavará los trastes”. No es mío: es de su abuela, señorita, de cuando se casó aquí.

    Write this down: “Whatsoever the quarrel may be, whosoever shall first lose their temper shall do the dishes.” It isn't mine: it's your grandmother's, miss, from when she got married here.

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