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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

Dar alto Lied

English answer:

Das alte Lied

    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2012-03-25 05:54:08 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
Mar 21, 2012 07:17
12 yrs ago
English term

Dar alto Lied

English Other Music name of a song
we sat on the counter, sang by ourselves and sent in requests for favorites like “Ave Maria,” “Dar alto Lied” and “Always.” Those were the best times.
Responses
4 +8 Das alte Lied
Change log

Mar 21, 2012 09:37: writeaway changed "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "name of a song"

Discussion

Shirley Fan (asker) Mar 22, 2012:
We usually transtlate the name into Chinese and add its orginal name behind the translation with brackets. I don't understand German so I can't tell it~~
Noni Gilbert Riley Mar 21, 2012:
Title of song in German Lied means song in German Shirley, and this is the title of a song being referred to. We don't translate "Ave Maria" into English when referring to it, we just leave it in Latin, so by the same token we should leave the other title in the original German. The only problem is that I suspect we have a typo! Perhaps it should be "Der Alte"? German speakers, what do you think?

Responses

+8
22 mins
Selected

Das alte Lied

This is the name of a song (misspelled here). In English it is called 'That Dear Old Song' but I would leave it in the original.

Music by Henry Love Lyrics by Fritz Löhner-Beda. It was included in the soundtrack to the film The Third Man with Orson Welles.
Reference:

http://books.google.it/books?id=mgVhAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA813&lpg=PA813&dq=das+alte+lied+Music+by+Henry+Love+Lyrics+by+Fritz+L%C3%B6hner-Beda&source

Peer comment(s):
agree Marta Maslowska : I've just found the same thing. It does fit.
1 min
Thanks.
agree Noni Gilbert Riley : Aha! The capitalizing should be as you write.
2 mins
Thanks. Yes, nouns are capitalized in German.
agree Tony M : Looks like it might be a scanno in the original.
4 mins
agree Jenni Lukac (X) : I suspect that Tony is right.
28 mins
agree Rowan Morrell
33 mins
agree P.L.F. Persio
54 mins
agree Charles Davis
1 hr
agree writeaway : again a bit of research does the trick (knowing a little bit of German makes one immediately aware of the typo aspect)
2 hrs
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