Que lata su último latido la supernova

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Hello

I contributed to a different thread http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2218051 and came up with the following sentence (after correction)

Que lata su último latido la supernova.

The problem is that I don't really know what it means!

I think it might mean

Let the supernova beat its last heartbeat.

Am I right?

(I know this sounds like a really stupid question, however I was only guessing when I suggested it!)

Many thanks

 

[pops91710]

That is the way I understand it. May the supernova beat its last/final heartbeat/pulse. Same-same.

 

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Thanks pops! (It must have been beginner's luck! )

 

[Idiomático]

Stars don't have heartbeats, they twinkle. Maybe Let the supernova [twinkle for the last time] [do its last twinkle] [emit its last twinkle.]

 

[pops91710]

Stars don't have heartbeats, they twinkle. Maybe Let the supernova [twinkle for the last time] [do its last twinkle] [emit its last twinkle.]

Metaphorically speaking any thing can have a heartbeat. I used pulse for a good reason. Check out what a pulsar is, and how they are so named. Besides, Twinkle does not work out as Latir and Lata which were the words that got us to this point.

 

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I used pulse for a good reason. Check out what a pulsar is

Pulsar was how I got to the phrase. I was regretting the fact that we were talking about a supernova and not a pulsar. Then it occurred to me that a supernova signals the death of a star and hence the metaphor of a final heartbeat.

 

[pops91710]

A light pulse is what we are talking about. They look just like coastal lighthouses as they pulse light. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Cycle_of_pulsed_gamma_rays_from_the_Vela_pulsar.gif

In that way it can be a metaphor for the heartbeat of a star.

 

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A light pulse is what we are talking about.

Ah yes, I get it!

 

[Bothman]

"Let the supernova beat its last heartbeat." was ok for "Que lata su último latido la supernova" (Que lata=Deja que lata, Let it beat)

 

[Oldy Nuts]

Hello

I contributed to a different thread http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2218051 and came up with the following sentence (after correction)

Que lata su último latido la supernova.

The problem is that I don't really know what it means!

I think it might mean

Let the supernova beat its last heartbeat.

Am I right?

(I know this sounds like a really stupid question, however I was only guessing when I suggested it!)

Many thanks

Yes, your interpretation in English of your own sentence in Spanish sounds perfectly correct to me. However, may I suggest that you take a look at my comment in the other thread?

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2218051&p=11124998#post11124998