I drive them places

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Zaduma

Member
Polish
"...and I drive them places so that they aren’t alone" - zastanawiam sie, czy jest to nieznane mi wyrazenie idiomatyczne, bo gdyby chodzilo o wozenie kogos do roznych miejsc, to byloby "drive them to the places".

Jak wiec przetlumaczyc to zdanie? (to mowi taksowkarz odnoszac sie do ludzi i swiatel wielkiego miasta)

chodzi o to, ze taksowkarz jest obcokrajowcem, i moze po prostu zle mowi po angielsku?
 
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    NotNow

    Senior Member
    English
    majlo said:
    Dodawanie them przed liczbą mnogą jest mi znane z Black Vernacular English, na przykład:
    - Take them glasses off! (z filmu "American Gangster")
    Ale zdanie z Twojego przykładu nie za bardzo ma dla mnie sens.
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    The two examples can't be compared. In majlo's example, them is incorrectly used as an adjective to modify glasses.

    In Zaduma's example, them is correctly used as a direct object of drive. Pardon my substandard Polish, but Zaduma's example might be translated something like Wożę ich taksówską do miejsc...

    I'm sure someone will have a better translation.

    BTW the taxi driver seems to speak English well.
     
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    majlo

    majlo

    Banned
    Union of European Socialist Republics
    Polish
    NotNow_ said:
    The two examples can't be compared. In majlo's example, them is incorrectly used as an adjective to modify glasses.

    In Zaduma's example, them is correctly used as a direct object of drive. Pardon my substandard Polish, but Zaduma's example might be translated something like Wożę ich taksówską do miejsc...

    I'm sure someone will have a better translation.

    BTW the taxi driver seems to speak English well.
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    You're right, my bad. :) I misunderstood the original sentence. I now get it. :)

    NotNow_ said:
    The two examples can't be compared. In majlo's example, them is incorrectly used as an adjective to modify glasses.
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    Incorrect as far as standard BrE/AmE are concerned, but it is not incorrect in BVE. :)
     
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