I would like to have this phrase translated into Spanish in an accurate manner:

I want to dance with you like no one is watching,  sing with you like
no one is listening, and love you like I've never been hurt.

Hello Deerock,

  Here you go:


Quiero bailar contigo como nadie nos mire, cantar contigo como nadie
nos escuche, y amarte como nunca hubiera estado lastimado.



Hope this helps!

Regards, Crabcakes

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Request for Answer Clarification by deerock-ga on 07 Jan 2006 21:46 PST

I know this may be hard with this text format, but can you also point
out where any letter punctations are, if any?

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Clarification of Answer by crabcakes-ga on 07 Jan 2006 22:28 PST

It *is* hard to believe, but there are no accents or other diacritical
marks needed. Since you did not use any exclamations in English, I
placed none in Spanish.

If you'd like exclamation marks, place one, upside down, at the
beginning of the sentence, and one at the end, as in English. None of
the verbs are in a tense that requires an accent mark!

Regards, Crabcakes

Thank you for your concise answer and follow up!

Just for the fun of it I ran that Spanish sentence through the
Spanish-English component of Multitranse, and here's what emerged:

I want to dance with you as nobody watches to us, to sing with you as
nobody listens to us, and amarte since been it had never hurt.  :)

So much for the accuracy of inexpensive translator programs!

That's a tricky sentence you got there. Although Crabcake's
translation was extremely accurate, he just translated the words &
checked if they matched tense, etc...
I would suggest a translation like:

Quiero bailar contigo como si nadie nos mirara, cantar contigo como si
nadie nos oyera y amarte como si nunca hubiera sido lastimado.

Again, no punctuations... Ain't it weird?

Of course, all translations are good, due to the fact that a
translation can't be done word by word, but phrase by phrase.

I was just wasting my time and found this interesting question-answer
issue. I'm a native spanish speaker, just to add, the first
translation is NOT correct. It is in a conditional form therefore
needs the SI (if in english).

Use the second one.

Hope this helps

rivadeneyra

just my two cents;  as a native english speaker who is now fluent in
spanish, I agree with rivadeneyra that neonkreuz's translation is
better..

Yup I agree, the second translation is much better. 

Not to say that it is incorrect. However, I would change the last word
from 'lastimado' to 'herido', although there is no difference in the
meaning of the words they both mean 'to be wounded' lastimado would
imply a more superficial wound, while 'herido' clearly states deeply
wounded.

Wow...thank you. I appreciate the help. I don't have much advanced
spanish experience so I could only analyze the general meaning of the
sentence originally provided.

Does anyone else agree that 'herido' would be better than 'lastimado'?

I think this spanish phrase could help me get laid soon. Hehe :)

Lastimado is best. "Herido" is more for a wound, as in a skin wound.
Lastimado is "hurt" as in feelings, in common use language.

Hi crabcakes.

Google the words amor herido and then amor lastimado, read the context
in which they are used and compare the amount of times the words come
up. In Spanish within this context the word herido is colloquial. That
said, by browsing the pages were the word lastimado is used, it
appears to me that in Mexico it is of common usage.

So it may be that crabcakes is familiar with the Spanish spoken in
Mexico, however,  that is a small minority of the Spanish speaking
people. If she happens to be Mexican it may be that lastimado would
sound better to her, if she is anything other than that it would sound
as a so-so translation, not incorrect, just lacking....

Elí

In my opinion, herido just flows better in the sentence (yet, I speak
Mexican Spanish)

Richard