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How does a famous little verse--the trouble with a kitten is THAT/eventually it becomes a CAT--get so incredibly lost in translation? At the end of the translation process, it comes out as the unlikely "The rock, that one is later the whole cat to the interior of the difficulty of the cat of the boy, repaired."
Try out your favourite phrases and see what happens! Here are a few choice translations from well-known literature/songs. The person who can tag the most original phrases, or even the books/songs/poems they are from, will win a prize! I can come up with something good. I have lots of books, music, etc. kicking around. To make it slightly easier, I will eschew the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean translation iterations.
- "The eyes of my reputation of the mountain extend, the end to come from getlteman."
- "That light of the window is outer broken of here?"
- "Brillig I gave to Twas and of toves of gyre of the slithey and the forms gimble you in the honeycomb."
- "Three small ones of cementation were lost their gloves and had begun to shout towards outside."
- "Task that never considers a poetry enough that the tree."
- "The night to the interior of the scale without clouds and skies starry enters the beauty like."
- "Since then which it could not arresting for the inoperative women, they arrested me for me."
- "I make the examinación to the legend of the ring, exactly if I do not know the direction."
- "Unhappyly defective Yorrick! It could make it, Horatio."
- "It had a man of Nantucket in the past."
Bonus round:
I shall post the answers and the winners in a few days. I don't expect anyone to get them all, but at least a couple of them are identifiable as is.
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Date: 2004-03-02 06:33 pm (UTC)From:3. 'twas Brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
9. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio
10. There once was a man from Nantucket.
11. Oh, Canada, our home and native land.
~A.
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Date: 2004-03-02 06:40 pm (UTC)From:#9 makes me laugh
Date: 2004-03-02 06:38 pm (UTC)From:Me the I believes, there is to like that reason.
A bird in how much is assesses two in the value of the shrubs.
Great site!
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Date: 2004-03-02 07:29 pm (UTC)From:2. (But soft) What light through yonder window breaks?
3. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
4. Three little kittens had lost their mittens, and they began to cry.
5. I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
6. She walks in beauty, like the night/Of cloudless climes and starry skies
7. Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me. (this is more of a guess than any of the others)
8.
9. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio.
10. There once was a man from Nantucket.
11. Oh, Canada! Our home and native land...
Dammit. This is going to drive me nuts.
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Date: 2004-03-02 07:32 pm (UTC)From:8. I will take the ring, though I do not know the way.
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Date: 2004-03-02 07:33 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-03-02 08:17 pm (UTC)From:Next time, the Asian permutations are being added....
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Date: 2004-03-07 06:24 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-03-07 11:40 am (UTC)From:If you have any dance music you want to get rid of, I'll take it off your hands. Otherwise, I could use some fiction. :)
I'll send my mailing addy to yer email address.
My take, before looking at other's...
Date: 2004-03-02 08:10 pm (UTC)From:?? [Something biblical, I'd guess...]
"That light of the window is outer broken of here?"
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
"Brillig I gave to Twas and of toves of gyre of the slithey and the forms gimble you in the honeycomb."
T'was brillig and the slithy tove, did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
"Three small ones of cementation were lost their gloves and had begun to shout towards outside."
Three litte kittens lost their mittens and they began to cry.
"Task that never considers a poetry enough that the tree."
?? [No idea. "The pen is mightier than the axe?" Beh.]
"The night to the interior of the scale without clouds and skies starry enters the beauty like."
She walks in beauty like the night.
"Since then which it could not arresting for the inoperative women, they arrested me for me."
Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me. ??
"I make the examinación to the legend of the ring, exactly if I do not know the direction."
I will take the ring to Mordor, though I know not the way. [Probably a close variation, due to lack of preservation of the proper noun...]
"Unhappyly defective Yorrick! It could make it, Horatio."
Alas, poor Yorrick! I knew him, Horatio.
"It had a man of Nantucket in the past."
There once was a man from Nantucket.
"The Oh Canada. Our earth to the house and the natural one."
Oh Canada, our home and sacred land.
Re: My take, before looking at other's...
Date: 2004-03-02 08:16 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2004-03-02 08:44 pm (UTC)From:2. "What light through yonder window breaks?"
3. "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe."
4. "Three little kittens, they lost their mittens, and they began to cry."
5. "I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree." (Alternate version involving billboards concludes with, "in fact, unless the billboard falls, I'll never see the tree at all.")
6. "She walks in beauty, like the night/ of cloudless climes and starry skies"...I think...
7. "Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me."
9. "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio."
10. "There once was a man from Nantucket."
BONUS: "O CANADAAAA, OUR HOME AND NAATIVE LAAAAAAAAAND!"
Hmmm. Well, ten, including the bonus...number eight reminds me of The Lord of the Rings, but I'll be damned if I can make anything other than a stab at the correct quotation.
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Date: 2004-03-03 03:05 am (UTC)From: