Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

ballzen shieren offen

Portuguese translation:

Ficar em maus lençóis

Added to glossary by Teresa Cristina Felix de Sousa
Jul 23, 2009 21:39
14 yrs ago
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German term

ballzen shieren offen

German to Portuguese Other Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
The problem was that people in compute r graphics sometimes didn't bother with anti-aliasing, or would treat it as an afterthought. At Lucasfilm, Catmull insisted that all software written by the group had to deal with jaggies from the outset; anyone who failed to comply would, he decreed, have their "ballzen shieren offen."
Proposed translations (Portuguese)
3 Ficar em maus lençóis

Discussion

Roberto Costa Jul 23, 2009:
it's not German at all The authors added the "en" to the words "balls sheared off". You'll have to post this as an English to Portuguese question.
Teresa Cristina Felix de Sousa (asker) Jul 23, 2009:
Sorry, I supposed it was. Do you have any idea of the language of those words? Tks in advance for yr kind contribution.
ahartje Jul 23, 2009:
That's not German! Or are there typos?

Proposed translations

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Ficar em maus lençóis

would have their "ballzen shieren offen." - vai ficar em maus lençóis

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ballzen shieren offen - http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090128165605AA...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090128165605AA... their balls chopped off.
curtail [kè:'teIlverbo transitivo •cortar, truncar;•privar (de);
To curtail as if by chopping: chopped off his sentence midway; are going to chop expenses.
To make heavy, cutting strokes. - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/chopped off
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