Lost in Translation II - totally lost

[Pave]

Translating a poem would be a nice idea

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Spiffor

dorenavant

Dorry, in english, a kind of small boat (word NOT of French origin, im pretty sure) Navant - Navir, navy, navigation.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Lul Thyme
IOptimally you want the translations to be perfect word for word, but meaningless from a global point of view.
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in that case Im out. My french isnt that good, without the help of a dictionary. (My Hebrew of course is worse than my French, unless the text is from a classical Jewish source)

[Az]

No no, you must stay. This is awesome. Otherwise, we'd just run in through babelfish.

[Winston]

Yeah, stay with us, lotm. This isn't supposed to be a scholarly project, just a bit of fun.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Az
No no, you must stay. This is awesome. Otherwise, we'd just run in through babelfish.

lo, lo, atah tzareech lashevet po. zeh yofi-tofi. anachnu ratznu ba dag-bavel.

[Az]

I wanted to write "run it"...

Anyway, this is pretty sweet, and by this sentence only, I see a shitload of laughter.

[Robert Plomp]

A poem is a great idea, but in every translation the poem should still rhyme

[Az]

Oooh, nice spin

[Atahualpa]

I think this is quite hard to do though, but if you can make it rhyme and keeping the original meaning then that would be great!

[Donegeal]

Isn't there enough players yet? I want to see how this turns out!!!

[Atahualpa]

I will be going to a concert tomorrow and not returning before Sunday, so meanwhile everybody has the chance to participate still.
I counted 12 so far, if I am not mistaken.

[Provost Harrison]

Provost Harrison

Translate FROM:

Native: English

Translate TO:

Ah, f**k...

[Chilean President™]

Chilean President™

Translate FROM:

Native: Spanish
Fluently: English, French
Non-fluently: *none*
For fun: Italian, Portuguese

Translate TO:

Native: Spanish
Fluently: English, French
Non-fluently: *none*
For fun: Italian, Portuguese

[Adagio]

More players?

[Atahualpa]

I am back guys, I'll be making a pathway now and then send the poem. Depends on how much time I have, I plan to send it around Wednesday (Tuesday, I'll be going to Vienna).

Festival was really straining. On Wednesday it rained a lot, so the whole campsite was wet when we arrived early Thursday. Then it was nice sunny and all the dirt dried, but from Friday to Saturday it rained again heavily and all through Saturday so that everything was a real mud slide. People took turns sliding down the hills using whatever they could find. We had some good football matches hitting tents and some crazy guy was shitting into a pile of cans while being cheered to by an ever growing crowd.
The music was okay as well, but I didn't really fell for it. Weezer, Oasis, Foo Fighters, Kosheen, Queens of the Stone Age, Incubus, Hot hot heat, Asian Dub Foundation, ...

Oh yes and 31 people injured because a bridge broke down. I wasn't on it though.

[Wernazuma III]

Translate FROM:
native: german
fluently: english, spanish
non-fluently: french, italian
for fun: portuguese, nahuatl

Translate TO:
native: german
fluently: english, spanish
for fun: french, italian

[Wernazuma III]

Oh, I came late?

[Atahualpa]

Ok guys, I need your attention. It took me 2 days to compile a path that could provide for an interesting twist.
If you are sure you can't do something in the path here, please say so, although I'd be quite displeased redrawing the whole thing (this is a lot of work).

Here is it:
English -> |Bosh| -> Spanish -> |Chilean President| -> French -> |Cybershy| -> Dutch -> |Gangerolf| -> German -> |WernazumaIII| -> French -> |Flandrien| -> English (-> |Krill| -> French) -> |Az| -> Russian -> |Pave| -> Swedish -> |Winston| -> German -> |Adagio| -> Danish -> |Aivo1/2so| -> Finnish -> |Kassiopeia| -> English -> |Karoch| -> Spanish -> |Spiffor| -> French -> |Lord of the Mark| -> English
(updated, Gangerolf changed, Flandrien and possibly Krill in)

Edit: with this update the variants have become meaningless now.

I'll go searching for a poem now.

[Winston]

You decide which one is better, Atahualpa.

[Robert Plomp]

You didn't include dutch......

[Flandrien]

Originally posted by CyberShy
You didn't include dutch......

How about this ?

in stead of French -> German

do

French -> Dutch (me)
Dutch -> German (Cybershy)

[Krill]

Translate FROM:
native: English
fluently: Latin
non-fluently: french

Translate TO:
native: English
fluently: Latin

[Krill]

That is if you want another link in the chain, that is...

[Aivo½so]

If Gangerolf wants to translate to Norwegian Bokmål, that's OK for me as well

Is Pave really up to the task of translating from Russian to Swedish?

[Atahualpa]

Originally posted by Flandrien


How about this ?

in stead of French -> German

do

French -> Dutch (me)
Dutch -> German (Cybershy)

ok, I think I can get you in, but not here. That would be too easy, since you speak french natively and your dutch is probably superb as well. So Cybershy makes a very easy translation from dutch to german (which is really straight forward I think).

I have modified it that way that Gangerolf will now translate from Dutch to German and Werna from German to French. After this Flandrien is in, to possibly bring in meaning in the gibberish produced and if Krill feels up the task translating TO french, he could do English -> French for Az. Otherwise Az does English -> Russian, which is probably okay as well, although not that difficult.

Pave has to translate Russian, otherwise my plan is ruined!!!

Ok, the new list would be:
English -> |Bosh| -> Spanish -> |Chilean President| -> French -> |Cybershy| -> Dutch -> |Gangerolf| -> German -> |WernazumaIII| -> French -> |Flandrien| -> English (-> |Krill| -> French) -> |Az| -> Russian -> |Pave| -> Swedish -> |Winston| -> German -> |Adagio| -> Danish -> |Aivo1/2so| -> Finnish -> |Kassiopeia| -> English -> |Karoch| -> Spanish -> |Spiffor| -> French -> |Lord of the Mark| -> English

[Krill]

Uh. Can I use a french Dictionary?

[Spiffor]

I'm torn between the original proposal and the variant 1. For me, Spanish is really "for fun" and my French translation might give something difficult to LOTM.

In the original proposal, LOTM and me are at the end: if we mangle the text beyond recognition, it would still be interesting to see what happened before (and how the text was progressively deformed)

OTOH, in the first variation, we're at the beginning, and we could end up giving quite a nonsensical text for the others to figure out

[Robert Plomp]

And keep the poem rhyming my friends

Afterwards everybody should put his contribution in this thread so we can see how it evolved

[Gangerolf]

Dutch to German? This should be interesting