This is a segment of a pizza menu in a Spanish restaurant. If you are bi-lingual you will recognize the amusing error in translation of the toppings on one of the pizzas. If you aren't, ask a friend, or tell us all how they arrived at this translation. If nobody gets it, I will enlighten you in a follow-up post.
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As an aside, when I use Apple to translate “picada” it returns “sting“.
And insect sting comes up here:
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But “peck” also comes up. Thinking of what mosquitos or woodpeckers do seems close to nosediving. Quite a ways from “minced” or “ground”. Maybe the proprietors aren’t fluent in English and left it to some online translating app to render their dishes in English.
Scott321
Level 7
Jan 9, 2024
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That's one meaning, but it's not "picada" when they looked up picada, they used the translation of "de picada", which means " in a nosedive".It reminds me of the old Monty Pithon sketches where the Hungarian tourist (John Clease) goed into a store and uses his little "Hungarian Phrases" book to ask for cigarettes.
Well Picado and picada both mean chopped or minced (F & M)
Carne picada is mince meat as it is called in the UK or Ground beef as it is called in the US
Descender en picado colloquially means a nosedive, literally it means a chop dive, ie cutting in to the water. It is possible that in some dialects to chop means colloquially to dive in this way.
I'm only guessing, since I only know a little Spanish from helping my son with his Spanish classes at school many years ago.
LenHazell53
Level 9
Jan 9, 2024
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So that could be where the chopping of beef comes in?
LenHazell53: You did your homework! Good job. Whomever translated the "carta" had only a passing knowledge of English, or vice versa, I don't know how they stumbled across the definition meaning "nosedive", or, why, when they were translating from Spanish to English, they didn't know what it meant. I like the explanation provided by Scott321. I hadn't thought of that. And, Len, I think you must know more than a little Spanish. I had to look it up myself and my Spanish is pretty good. One rarely talks about airplane crashes.
Nosedive? What? Some poor steer slipped on the barn floor?
pamagain
Level 8
Jan 9, 2024
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Nice try, but you have to know what the adjective "picada" means in Spanish.
@fishline79 I think it means a path....
@pamagain No that is Pista
@LenHazell53 Thanks.
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