Lyr Req: Portuguese (?) translation

Subject: Lyr Req: Portuguese (?) translation
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 12 May 05 - 03:04 PM

I gather that this girl likes men, but what *exactly* is she saying?

Homens

from Proxima Estacion: Esperanza, by Manu Chao

Homens,
gosto de todos,
dos morenos, dos mulatos,
dos branquinhos , dos loirinhos e dos crioulos.
Só tem que ser homem.
Tem homem corno, homem baixo, homem gordo,
homem ingrato, safado, careca, cabeludo,
viado , ousado, temido,
….tem muito homem….

Todo homem que se preza tem que impor respeito,
saber ouvir, falar, escutar, ter dinheiro , celular ,
ser bom de cama, e te respeitar….

Se o homem não tiver nenhuma dessas virtudes,
saia de perto e tome uma atitude.
porque o verdadeiro homem,
ele te ama, te ama,
te trata, te trata,
com carinho
com respeito
e amor,
e vai te dar por toda vida grandes felicidades,
serão felizes,
este é o homem de verdade….

homens,
gosto de todos, dos morenos, dos mulatos ,
dos branquinhos, dos loirinhos e dos crioulos,
….só tem que ser homem…..

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Portuguese (?) translation
From: masato sakurai
Date: 12 May 05 - 11:10 PM

AltaVista - Babel Fish Translation may help.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Put the URL into the "Translate a Web page" box, select "Portuguese to English," and click on "Translate."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Portuguese (?) translation
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 13 May 05 - 01:56 AM

Ah, Babelfish, an endless source of entertainment - domo arrigato, masato, I'd forgotten its joys:

Men, taste of all, colored people, the mulatos, the branquinhos, the loirinhos and the Creoles. It only has that to be man. It has man corno, low man, man fat person, ungrateful, disembarassed, bald, cabeludo man, viado, bold, feared....tem much man.... All man who if preza has that to impose respect, to know to hear, to speak, to listen, to have money, cellular, to be good of bed, and to respect you.... If the man will not have none of these virtues, skirt of close and takes an attitude because the true man, it love you, love you, treats you, treats you, with affection with respect and love, and goes to give for all life great happinesses to you, will be happy, this is the truth man.... men, taste of all, colored people, the mulatos, the branquinhos, the loirinhos and the Creoles....só has that to be man.....

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Portuguese (?) translation
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 13 May 05 - 07:50 AM

A programme on CBC Radio has a contest where they computer-translate lyrics from English into something else and then back into English. Then the listeners try to guess what song it is. Sometimes they succeed.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Portuguese (?) translation
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 14 May 05 - 06:41 AM

Babelfish and its peers are sources of great innocent pleasure. Another is the grammar checker in Word, which once asked me if a reference to gunmen might be construed as sexist.