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Can I use you people as a thesaurus?
Indrid Cold
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There's an old saying that I remembered recently and I wondered what it would be like in English. But I'm not sure about one word. The meaning is more or less right but I think there might be a more appropriate one.
The saying is: "Either the sea is crooked or we're sailing crookedly" and the word is "crooked".
The saying is: "Either the sea is crooked or we're sailing crookedly" and the word is "crooked".
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A selection of synonyms might be :
agee, anfractuous, angular, asymmetric, awry, bowed, catawampus, circuitous, cockeyed, contorted, crippled, curved, curving, deformed, deviating, devious, disfigured, distorted, errant, gnarled, hooked, incurving, indirect, irregular, kinky, knurly, lopsided, meandering, misshapen, not straight, oblique, out of shape, rambling, roundabout, screwy, serpentine, sinuous, skewed, slanted, snaky, spiral, tilted, topsy-turvy, tortile, tortuous, twisted, twisting, uneven, warped, winding, zigzag
So I think 'crooked' is more likely.
Homophobe!
EDIT: How about "slanted(ly)"?
I wouldn't use either. I think they are both grammatically incorrect.
Is your quote meant to be humorous? Or a play on words? Have you put the original quote through Google Translation just to see what their result would be, just as an indication?
I still favour 'crooked' and 'crookedly'.
Google isn't much help: "Or, is tortuous or crooked coast sail"
Hmmmm .. it's neither a proverb nor a metaphor really, but I can't think right now as to what one might name it. Neither can I think of an English alternative apart from, maybe, "either everyone is crazy or just it's just me".
... Bently