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Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

la tiroides... me la quemaron y ya!

English translation:

they zapped it / burned it out... and that did it!

Added to glossary by María Eugenia Wachtendorff
Aug 19, 2005 21:56
18 yrs ago
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Spanish term

la tiroides... me la quemaron y ya!

Spanish to English Medical Medical (general) Colloquial expression
"...anteriormente estuve con serios problemas a la tiroides. Me la quemaron y ya!"

¿Cómo se dice "quemar" en este contexto?

¡Gracias!
Proposed translations (English)
5 +2 my thyroid.....they zapped me and now everything's fine!
5 +3 I had it radiated and that did it!
5 +1 tO UNDERGO RADIATION
4 +1 I had my thyroid cauterized
4 I had my thyroid nuked and that did the trick!
4 "I had my thyroid irradiated, and it did the trick!"
Change log

Aug 19, 2005 22:30: RKurylski changed "Language pair" from "Spanish to English" to "English to Spanish"

Aug 19, 2005 22:36: María Teresa Taylor Oliver changed "Language pair" from "English to Spanish" to "Spanish to English"

Discussion

Non-ProZ.com Aug 24, 2005:
AMIGOS TODOS: QUIERO AGRADECER SU INTER�S Y SU VALIOSA AYUDA, Y CONTARLES QUE ESA TRADUCCI�N FUE UNA COSA RAPID�SIMA, QUE MI CLIENTE ESTABA ESPERANDO CON ANSIAS. LA RESPUESTA QUE GOODWORDS DIO EN SU SEGUNDA NOTA ME PARECI� MUY ACERTADA, Y FUE LO QUE US�: "I HAD IT BURNED OUT", SEGUIDA POR EL "AND THAT DID IT" DE RUTH HENDERSON.
NO ME ATREV� A TRADUCIR "I HAD IT RADIATED", PORQUE RKURYLSKI MENCION� LA CAUTERIZACI�N, QUE ES OTRA MANERA DE QUEMAR, Y NO TEN�A C�MO VERIFICAR EL PROCEDIMIENTO QUE HAB�AN USADO EN ESTA PERSONA.
DESPU�S LLEG� EL "ZAP" DE JANE LAMB-CLOTH, QUE ME PARECE ESTUPENDO, Y TODOS CONTRIBUYERON MUCHO A ENRIQUECER MIS CONOCIMIENTOS.
AHORA TENGO QUE ADJUDICAR LOS KUDOZ Y ESTOY COMPLICADA, PORQUE GOODWORDS NO DIO UNA RESPUESTA, APARTE DE SUS COMENTARIOS AQU�.
POR LO TANTO, LES COMUNICO QUE PONDR� TODAS SUS SUGERENCIAS EN EL GLOSARIO Y LE DAR� LOS PUNTOS A JANE. ESPERO QUE NADIE SE SIENTA IGNORADO(A).
�MUCH�SIMAS GRACIAS!
MEW
Carmen Schultz Aug 24, 2005:
ay se cort�: aqu� va el resto:�hay muchas variantes. Por ejemplo, alguien us� �zap� pero yo he escuchado m�s �nuke� (se usa mucho en t�rminos informales y no es s�lo para asuntos nucleares)!
Carmen Schultz Aug 24, 2005:
�Qu� tan convencional deseas la traducci�n?� Deseas algo pintoresco, tipo �slang�? Si es �slang�, ten presente que estos modismos/expresiones pueden variar, inclusive dentro de los EE.UU. Me fij� que entre las ideas incluidas hasta ahorita hay muchas var
Non-ProZ.com Aug 20, 2005:
Hi Marga! I am translating a very poorly composed letter from a lady to her friend. Anyway, I used a combination of Ruth's and GoodWords' suggestions: "I had it burned and that did it!" Thank you!
Margarita Gonzalez Aug 20, 2005:
doctors how to deal with patients and what to expect.
Margarita Gonzalez Aug 20, 2005:
-sorry- is important in the context of medical training. If such is the case, doctors insist on quoting patients to the letter. (I once had to translate a patient who described her pain as "eggshells breaking inside my knees". All these descriptions teach
Margarita Gonzalez Aug 20, 2005:
If this is the testimony of the patient, in the context of a case history, I would translate it as it is, with italics or [sic] following the misuse of words. I had problems with my tyrod, but they burnt it and that did it! Wording of patients are
Non-ProZ.com Aug 19, 2005:
You are right, GoodWords. I don't know how old the writer is, so I don't want to use slang. From her handwriting I guess she is past middle-age, so I will use your suggestion. Thank you!
Non-ProZ.com Aug 19, 2005:
You are right, GoodWords. I don't know how old the writer is, so I don't want to use slang. From her handwriting I guess she is past middle-age, so I will use your suggestion. Thank you!
Margaret Schroeder Aug 19, 2005:
Why not just used "burned" as she did in Spanish? As you say, this leaves it open to be either radiation or cauterization. I'd venture that if she had been an English speaker, she might have said it that way.
Non-ProZ.com Aug 19, 2005:
OMG! RKurylski, I have no way to find out what method they used with this lady... Both radiation and cauterization imply burning. Should I use "nuked"? (this is a very informal letter from a friend of my client's)
Non-ProZ.com Aug 19, 2005:
These are "Beta" bugs... Anyway, in the end I think the site will work a lot better with this new approach. Thanks, Ruth Y gracias, Tere. Pasan cosas extra�as... como decimos en mi tierra: "El progreso causa molestias" - pero no hay que quejarse! xxoo
Refugio Aug 19, 2005:
I finally got it to post by clicking on "use old design." But since medicine is listed as one of my areas, it shouldn't have excluded me...
María Teresa Taylor Oliver Aug 19, 2005:
No s� por qu� hab�an cambiado el par... pero lo invert� otra vez. Saludos, Maru :O)
Non-ProZ.com Aug 19, 2005:
NOPE! It seems we will have to do some research work before I can grade this question! :D
Non-ProZ.com Aug 19, 2005:
Thanks, Ruthie! I'll see if I can choose a winner from this new window...
Refugio Aug 19, 2005:
Or: "I had it radiated and that did it!"
Refugio Aug 19, 2005:
Where is the answer button? I would like to post an answer but can't. My answer would say: "They radiated it for me and that did the trick!"
Carmen Schultz Aug 19, 2005:
He escuchado "burning the thyroid" (con radiaci�n). A veces las personas dicen "nuked" para indicar quemar, pero esto es slang (The doctor nkued my thyroid).
Non-ProZ.com Aug 19, 2005:
Thank you, girls! Won't any of you post an answer?
The winner gets 4 Kudoz, you know! ;D
Margaret Schroeder Aug 19, 2005:
Lo que puse arriba no tiene que ver.
Margaret Schroeder Aug 19, 2005:
De acuerdo con Yolanda. Treatment with radioactive iodine.
yolanda Speece Aug 19, 2005:
TO UNDERGO RADIATION THERAPY! THE RADIATION "BURNS" TISSUE.
Margaret Schroeder Aug 19, 2005:
Tal vez...
Margaret Schroeder Aug 19, 2005:
http://www.ithyroid.com/hypot_treatments.htm "Many people feel that since they have to take thyroid hormone then their thyroid glands must be 'shot.' Doctors do their best to perseverate this myth by telling patients that their thyroid has 'burned out'."
Margaret Schroeder Aug 19, 2005:
Ver http://www.drlowe.com/geninfo/testimonials.htm "After I had my thyroid burned out..." y ...

Proposed translations

+2
18 hrs
Selected

my thyroid.....they zapped me and now everything's fine!

cheers....:)

Not nuking dear..that is a Bomb! This is Zapping...like with a Ray...it is colloquial....

Zapping works fine...the ya can mean that's good or bad. Depends on your context, right? it's either everything's fine..or "and that did it"





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Note added at 4 days (2005-08-24 12:54:43 GMT)
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Hi Maria

I would just say: they zapped my thyroid and now everything's fine!

Zapping works because radiation is a "ray" right? ZApping means to change TV channels with a remote..going from one channel to the other. Also, in science fiction parlance and slang, it means to direct a ray at someone/something...so I think this would work fine in that register.
Peer comment(s):
agree Paulina Gómez
22 mins
agree Carmen Schultz : did they zap you or the thyroid? Just an observation.The way you wrote it sounds as if you were being zapped and not the gland itself. I like your choice of zap. It's contemporary.
3 days 15 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "¡Gracias, Jane, y a todos!"
+1
47 mins

I had my thyroid cauterized

One does not have to undergo radiation
Reference:

Bottom-up calcium phosphate cauterize the thyroid and neck and shoulder pain quixotic Archimedes' principle with

Peer comment(s):
agree Carmen Schultz
4 days
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+1
13 mins

tO UNDERGO RADIATION

BECAUSE THE RAYS EMIT SUCH A HIGH LEVEL OF ENERGY IT BURNS TISSUES SO i BELIEVE THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT
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Note added at 48 mins (2005-08-19 22:44:57 GMT)
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I UNDERWENT RADIATION THERAPY AND, JUST LIKE THAT, DONE!
Peer comment(s):
agree jmf (X) : or "and that took care of it"
1 hr
THANKS!
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11 hrs

I had my thyroid nuked and that did the trick!

For something more colloquial/chatty (slangy) you can opt for "nuke":

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1 day 18 hrs

"I had my thyroid irradiated, and it did the trick!"

Actually, you can irradiate your thyroid as treatment, so I would say "I had my thyroid irradiated, and it did the trick!". The other treatment is surgery, but that wouldn't be the same as "quemarse la tiroides".

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Note added at 1 day 18 hrs 30 mins (2005-08-21 16:27:33 GMT)
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On the verb "irradiate"
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=irr...
Reference:

http://ut.healthinformatics.net/docs/spanish/aha/svhyper.spa.asp

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+3
44 mins

I had it radiated and that did it!

Yolanda is right that it refers to radiation.

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Note added at 4 days (2005-08-24 15:48:45 GMT)
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In English we would never say "I had it burned" in this situation. We might say, "I had it burned out/off", but it would not be common usage.
Peer comment(s):
agree María Teresa Taylor Oliver : "That did it!" maintains the register...
1 min
Thanks, Maria Teresa
agree Patrice
25 mins
Thanks, Patricia
agree Carmen Schultz : This is the best conventional translation of the bunch-was the asker wanting something more colloquial?
4 days
Thanks, Carmen
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