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gerwyls
April 30, 2007, 06:27 AM
I saw this T shirt recently in Madrid but I can't translate it. Can anybody help?
Alguien que
me quiero mucho
me ha traido
esta birria
de camiseta
de ... madrid
Thanks, Gerry

Tomisimo
April 30, 2007, 09:52 AM
Hi Gerry, and welcome.

The hard part in this translation is "birria", since it could have several possible translations.

I'd translate it something like this:

Someone who loves me a lot
brought me this useless shirt
from Madrid.

Oh, and it's "Alguien que me quiere mucho"

Maybe sosia can offer you a better translation, since he's from Spain.

sosia
May 02, 2007, 01:14 AM
birria it's slang, but tomisimo it's acurate.
birria it's a thing of bad quality or bad-done, or old, or something like that :D :D

"Someone who loves me a lot brought me this"
useless
lousy
crappy
stingy
" t-shirt from Madrid"

the meaning it's always the same :D

Tomisimo
May 04, 2007, 04:03 PM
Thanks for confirming the meaning of birria- It's not used in Mexico at all, as far as I know.

celador
May 06, 2007, 02:14 PM
Someone I like (or likes me?) has brought me this silly t-shirt from Madrid.

Tomisimo
May 07, 2007, 10:25 PM
Hmmmm, if it was "someone I like", it would be "alguien que quiero" or "alguien a quien quiero", without the "me".

Anyways, now that I've stepped away from the original question a bit, a more colloquial, and probably better translation comes to mind:

Someone though enough of me to bring me this stupid shirt from Madrid.