Comments on: my kingdom for a(n?) X http://snowclones.org/2008/06/04/my-kingdom-for-an-x/ Snowclones are the new eggcorns. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:51:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Snago http://snowclones.org/2008/06/04/my-kingdom-for-an-x/#comment-3525 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:30:47 +0000 http://snowclones.wordpress.com/?p=100#comment-3525 And in swedish: “Mitt kungarike för en häst”

]]> By: griffelspitzerin http://snowclones.org/2008/06/04/my-kingdom-for-an-x/#comment-2858 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:51:13 +0000 http://snowclones.wordpress.com/?p=100#comment-2858 The common form in German is “ein Königreich für X” “a kingdom for X”.

This guy says it’s because most people don’t have a kingdom to give away:

Und doch zeigt auch solche
falsche Wiedergabe bisweilen eine gewisse Vernunft,
eine Anpassung an die Zwecke der Rede: „mein König-
reich für ein Pferd,” wie es bei Shakespeare heißt,
klingt thöricht im Munde des gewöhnlichen Sterblichen, der es deshalb vorzieht zu sagen: „ein Königreich für
ein Pferd.” [ Behaghel, Die deutsche Sprache (1902), p100,
http://www.archive.org/stream/diedeutschespra01behagoog#page/n110/mode/2up ]

]]> By: Piculin http://snowclones.org/2008/06/04/my-kingdom-for-an-x/#comment-2126 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:33:19 +0000 http://snowclones.wordpress.com/?p=100#comment-2126 In Spanish, we have “Mi reino por un X”.
Google offers as a prominent result a recent Argentinian movie “Mi reino por un platillo volador ” (…flying saucer).

]]> By: Jean-Sébastien Girard http://snowclones.org/2008/06/04/my-kingdom-for-an-x/#comment-2089 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:42:30 +0000 http://snowclones.wordpress.com/?p=100#comment-2089 In French, the Snowclone is “Mon royaume pour un X”, with a masculine noun. The feminine is much, much rarer (roughly 1 in 17).

]]> By: John Cowan http://snowclones.org/2008/06/04/my-kingdom-for-an-x/#comment-2081 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:51:39 +0000 http://snowclones.wordpress.com/?p=100#comment-2081 Shakespeare, after all, was (in the form of the Schlegel-Tieck translation) one of the important 19th-century German Romantic poets. There are many bilinguals who think that the translation is better than the original.

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