Help please!

[Highwaysurfer]

Hi there,

Was watching "the Dudesons" ....very funny.....

Can anyone tell me what " Sata Lasissa" means in English?

Thanks!!!
Cyndi

[mrjimsfc]

I think you've misquoted something.......

[Highwaysurfer]

Here is the path......http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNekdA3DfFM

Check it out for yourself.

I just want to know if they are translating it correctly or not?

They said it means "pedal to the metal"

Is this the correct translation?

Thanks!!!!

Cyndi

[kalmisto]

If "sata lasissa" means the same as " kaasu pohjassa" then "pedal to the metal" is the correct translation. I have not seen the clip.

"Sata lasissa" can hardly mean anything else than "pedal to the metal".

[FinnGuyHelsinki]

They said it means "pedal to the metal"

Is this the correct translation?

Yes, or "full throttle", literally it's referring to the speedometer read-out of 'one hundred' (literally or figuratively the maximum, I'm not certain which exactly originally). "Sata lasissa" can also be used in other context as well as driving, meaning generally 'going all out', e.g. 'tehdä töitä sata lasissa'.

[Pursuivant]

Theres also an expression ajaa tuhatta ja sataa which is generally of someone else speeding. Sata lasissa mean 100 in the "glass" as in the speedometer... I think old cars had that as a fairly magic number...

[Rob A.]

Theres also an expression ajaa tuhatta ja sataa which is generally of someone else speeding. Sata lasissa mean 100 in the "glass" as in the speedometer... I think old cars had that as a fairly magic number...

Ah yes...always amusing when some non-native speaker gets confused by an idiom...
My first instinct is always to try to interpret something literally...sometimes you just have to accept it's a fixed expression....

Here are a couple of English idioms for "speed", literally translated into Finnish...which, of course, would fall flat in any converstation... Guess what they are in English???....

kuin lepakko helvetistä...

tähdätä helvettiä nahkalla...

Here's a link to English idioms for "speed" or "rapidity"

....and here's another link showing what happens when the pedantic among us try to analyze one of these idioms....

[Pursuivant]

First one is an LP by Ossi Osponen... the 2nd one is about as selkeää kuin muta, ain't a greased lightning for sure.

[Jukka Aho]

Just to clarify the “glass” aspect here... It’s a reference to the shiny, convex protective glass on a mechanical car speedometer. So what you see “in[side] the glass” is the reading on the dial, with the needle pointing at the number “100”.

[Rob A.]

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Nice...."Gas/Petrol in the Veins"....although it might be physiologically more correct to say: Bensaa valtimoissa...

....and the second image almost looks like an early model of the Batmobile.....

kuin Batmobile/Lepakonautoa helvetistä......


....and on second thought I think a better version of this:

tähdätä helvettiä nahkalla...

might be...

mennä helvettiin nahkalla/nahalla...

Though I suppose a native speaker could think of something a little more colourful...

[Jukka Aho]

Nice...."Gas/Petrol in the Veins"....although it might be physiologically more correct to say: Bensaa valtimoissa... :D

In Finnish, the word suoni (or verisuoni) is used for all kinds of blood vessels; arteries and veins alike. There’s also the word hiussuoni for capillaries... the analogy being they’re as thin as individual strands of hair!

You tend to hear the words valtimo and laskimo only in medical/health speak and in biology classes in school.

Sometimes people also use longer words, such as valtimosuoni and laskimosuoni.

....and on second thought I think a better version of this [...] mennä helvettiin nahkalla/nahalla...

What are you? Tom of Finland? 8-|

[Rob A.]

Nice...."Gas/Petrol in the Veins"....although it might be physiologically more correct to say: Bensaa valtimoissa...

In Finnish, the word suoni (or verisuoni) is used for all kinds of blood vessels; arteries and veins alike. There’s also the word hiussuoni for capillaries... the analogy being they’re as thin as individual strands of hair!

Thanks...in some ways Finnish is much more transparent to the user than English....the word, "capillary" in English means exactly the same...from Latin, capillaris..."pertaining to hair"....but most English speakers wouldn't know this...

....and on second thought I think a better version of this [...] mennä helvettiin nahkalla/nahalla...

What are you? Tom of Finland? 8-|

....I never thought of that...always a danger of saying something that evokes the wrong idea when learning another language .... So what would be a good translation in Finnish for "hell-bent for leather"..???...Or, do we find ourselves back to, "sata lasissa" and "ajaa tuhatta ja sataa"??...

[sammy]

....I never thought of that...always a danger of saying something that evokes the wrong idea when learning another language .... So what would be a good translation in Finnish for "hell-bent for leather"..???...Or, do we find ourselves back to, "sata lasissa" and "ajaa tuhatta ja sataa"??...

I guess we do - there are expressions and idioms that just do not translate comfortably "word for word" between languages... and "hell bent for leather" is one of them We have idioms like nasta laudassa (Nyt nasta lautaan > full speed ahead now) that also refer to driving very fast, but translating that verbatim might result in something like "a tack in a wood board" - could be hard to fathom that (I have no idea where it comes from, possibly it's got something to do with putting your foot to the floor...)

[Jukka Aho]

We have idioms like nasta laudassa (Nyt nasta lautaan > full speed ahead now) that also refer to driving very fast, but translating that verbatim might result in something like "a tack in a wood board" - could be hard to fathom that (I have no idea where it comes from, possibly it's got something to do with putting your foot to the floor...)

The word nasta has several meanings in Finnish but is generally used for flat-headed thumbtacks, or bulletin board pins:



Those can be thought of sort of like resembling the pedals on the floorboard of a car – especially in some older cars where pedals may have had this more mushroom-like or piston-like construction with the shank jutting (orthogonally) out of the back of the pad and disappearing in a small hole in the floorboard. So the cry ”nasta lautaan” is basically the same as ”pedal to the metal!”... you hit the accelerator down to the floor... as far as it physically goes.

[sammy]

Those can be thought of sort of like resembling the pedals on the floorboard of a car – especially in some older cars where pedals may have had this more mushroom-like or piston-like construction with the shank jutting (orthogonally) out of the back of the pad and disappearing in a small hole in the floorboard. So the cry ”nasta lautaan” is basically the same as ”pedal to the metal!”... you hit the accelerator down to the floor... as far as it physically goes.

That sounds reasonable enough! Nasta kaupunki!