Help to translate a joke, please! Russian-English
There is a simple russian joke:
"Патологоанатом умер. Но всё равно поехал на работу."
How would you translate this joke to keep the original comic effect it has?
Specifically, how to translate the verb "поехал" and keep original idea?
Ex: After pathologist died, he still went to work.
or: After pathologist died, he still came to work.
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Answers · 7
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Even death couldn't keep the coroner away from the office.
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After pathologist died, he still got to work.
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"A pathologist had died, but he showed up at work nevertheless."
I'm not sure about "had died", maybe here would be better "is been dead", in order to show that he was already dead when he "came" to work.
"to show up" means "появляться" but doesn't mean "to come" or "to go" - "приходить" literally.
Или стоит заменить "сame" или "went" на "GOT". Так будет менее прямолинейно, что и нужно в данном случае, чтобы юмор был ясен.
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You can't use this construction "been dead" without any auxiliary verbs like "have/has", "had" or "is/are".
The construction "PaTHologist been dead " is not correct from the perspective of English grammar. Here you can say "was (already) dead", but not "been dead", if you want to say "был мёртв" using simple constructions.
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The pathologist died. but went to work anyway.
поехал = Went
Source: google (god who knows everything)
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