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Atahualpa
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Hawthrone
Mar 1999
time: 06:37
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I knew you'd mess it up Spiff. I have been in spain for 6 months and know a bit of the language and I also had some french earlier. I really didn't find french to be soo helpful, at first it confused me like hell and then I forgot everything and could only think in spanish.
Anyway, I was curious to see how you do 
Winston, of course, I didn't take you seriously when you wrote you could translate from french, italian or spanish after I saw the languages you speak fluently.
As for the next installment of the game, I think it'd be best to translate from a language you speak fluently into your native language. And yes it should be a poem and everyone should make a translation transmitting not the words, but the meaning and the sense into his/her native language.
While hosting the game was fun, it's surely quite a bit of work, so I rather not have one shortly. I'd participating, but someone else should host it.
Btw, the biggest problem I had in setting the path was to find people who could do germanic to latin and people who could do vice versa. There are only a few and most involve german. I'd have liked to see Swedish -> French -> Finnish -> Spanish -> Danish -> Italian -> English -> French -> ... hoping for chinese, japanese is probably too much
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Aivo½so
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Finland
Sep 1999
time: 07:37
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Originally posted by Kassiopeia
Finnish is not Germanic.  It's Ugric, although it is part of the Indo-European languages. In any case, the difference between Romance and Germanic languages and Finnish is so big that it can act as a "buffer" between the two groups, or rather, you can do Swedish->Finnish->German and still have potential heaps of distortion. We had Danish->Finnish->English this time, for instance. |
The way of thinking about things is pretty similar between Finns and Scandinavians, probably due to Swedes having pwned us for five centuries, so the differences often are only superficial. One thing that can mess translations up, though, is the lack of gender in Finnish... I, for example, had to translate hun ("she") as nainen ("woman") on one occasion, but it seems you guessed this
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Karoch
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Donostia
Jul 2003
time: 06:37
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I come very late, but... In the midgame, Atahualpa says that it was more importan to translate the meaning of the poem, and to put them "poetic" that translate literally. I was to translate to my native languaje, so I put some "strange" word that sound more poetics, perhaps changing a little bit of meaning.
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originally posted by Spiffor
(4) I seriously wondered if "Alimana" was Germany. But I remembered it would be "Alemana" then. Since we were talking about a girl, and since I know the word "manana", I thought she was the beauty of the morning. |
Alimaña. Translation from the word "parasite". Parasite (english) = parásito (español), but it is not a poetic word. Alimaña, a english dictionnary says, is a predator, an animal which kills livestocks, like wolf or fox. It is not exactly an parasite, but "alimaña"have certain meaning of "bad", like "parasite", and is more poetic, I think.
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(16) Well, if "ti amo" is "I love you", "mi amo" ought to be "my love", inn'it? |
Mi amo = mi dueño = my owner.
Very good work to all. Very fun
And the next?
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03-09-2005 21:16
But I admit that it kinda goes against the point of Lost in Translation - we're supposed to see hoy a text becomes progressively ravaged in a succession of acceptable translations - not in a couple of terrible ones 
Yes, I've heard of that
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