“Old Blighty”

[JPablo]

This refers to "England as home," right?

Is there a way to translate it into Spanish?

(I.e., short of saying "mi vieja tierra inglesa"?)

[Perikles]

I don't think it can be translated and still carry the connotations of fondness for the home country when abroad. It is of course a corruption of the Hindustani word विलायती.

[JPablo]

I guess that is something like "vilayti" for the neophytes at Hindustani?

(I thought it had to do with Captain Blight... but I guess I was wrong... another Hobson-Jobson thing...)

In Asturias they talk about "mi bella tierruca" but sure enough the connotations are quite different, geographically and otherwise...

Well, thank you for the data...

(I think though that some expression with "terruño" or "madre patria" may be adapted in some contexts...)

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by JPablo

I guess that is something like "vilayti" for the neophytes at Hindustani?

(I thought it had to do with Captain Blight...

vilāyatī, and you are probably thinking of Captain Bligh from Mutiny on The Bounty.

[JPablo]

Yup, that's right Bligh, not "blight"...
Blistering barnacles! (Oh, that's captain Haddock now!)
Billions of blue blistering boiled and barbecued barnacles.
But that's another subject... even if beautifully alliterative.

At any rate, thank you blery buch!

[CrOtALiTo]

Pablo.

I have read your thanks in your last post and you have wrote blery buch.

I mean that 's correct.

Where got you that phrase?

It's like to these american slangs.

4 you.

Ill

couse.
Because.

Really they are form more comfortable for say that.

[JPablo]

Sorry, Crotalito, my 'expression' above is INcorrect.

That was my 'invention' making fun of using the "b" before.

I was just playing with the "b" sound...

(My apologies if I confused you...)

[sosia]

i'ts a little difficult to speak about England "as home"
"mi querida campiña inglesa"
"mi añorada nación"
"mi patria querida"

[JPablo]

You're are certainly right, Sosia!

Thank you for the options...

(At least Andy Murray can go back to his Old Blighty after having defeated Federer in the Finals of the Shangai Masters 1000 just yesterday...)

(Although veering from the main thread, just using it as an example of usage, that would be right... for Murray... even if I believe he did a lot of his initial training at the Barcelona Tennis schools...)