'I'm sick of always looking like Darth Vader with Sunshine Barbie...'
Frak you, ff.net. I finally get back online and want to post my new TLW chapter to Where I Follow but DOCUMENT MANAGER IS DOWN, YOU SAY? You couldn't have had this hissy fit OVER THE WEEKEND? When I was trapped at home and couldn't get online, you didn't wanna chuck your wobbly then?
Hee. Australian slang makes me giggle. Wait, I'm angry right now. *frowns*
Oh, fine, I can't keep it up for long, I'm just so thrilled to be on the internet again. You guys have no idea how much I missed you all. *clings* Hope everyone had a good Easter!
Also, admire my shiny new icon! *gazes blissfully* By the incredible
odakota_rose , whose icon-making talents make me glee in the most undignified way. :D
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Okay, moment of truth here; I'm an idiot. I was watching Bad Guys [YAY!] and it hit me. Marguerite and Vala have this other similarity that I can’t believe I overlooked before- their immense fondness for teh shinies. Both are renowned thieves in their respective universes. I love that Marguerite is a ‘jewel thief wanted on five continents’, how cool does that sound?! On a side note, this factoid is what made me squee a little in Leverage’s season finale [please, someone tell me there is going to be a second season?] when the baddie was listing each team member and their respective ‘wanted’ status. *g* [Hardison is a bit of an underachiever- Iceland? That’s it?]
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On the off chance that this interests anyone, I’ve written up a brief translation of the Samoan exchanges in the second ep of TLW, Stranded. [Why no, I didn't have anything better to do....]
Netty made fun of them, but Ma tells me that the writers and actors did a decent job overall; the translation was correct for the most part, aside from the odd glaring error [as well as the fact that the Samoan alphabet does not include a ‘J’ or ‘Z’, but then, these are the fictional Zanga, so I think that’s excusable] and the actors did a credible job with the pronunciation and accent- though she preferred Marguerite to Jacoba, lol, whose mumbling enunciation drove her crazy. An example of a dude spitting out the lines with more attitude than accuracy, heh.
Village center:
Jacoba [to Assai]: You are so stupid/crazy.
[although Marguerite somehow translates this as ‘He says she’s threatened the village by bringing us here’]
Jacoba [to Assai]: You’re a liar as well
Assai: They need our help.
Marguerite: We come in peace because we need some help
[COME IN PEACE! *dies laughing* I love when people say that!]
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Inside Jacoba’s hut:
Jacoba: You’re wasting your time
Marguerite: Wait. What can I give you for you to show me the [wrong] way? Veronica?
Lol. Major error there- Marguerite asks for the WRONG way, rather than what I imagine was supposed to be the RIGHT way [off the Plateau]. It’s interesting that when I was learning languages at school, we generally made errors with OPPOSITES. We might correctly recall the words for cat, dog, money, house and all that, we’d get the ‘unique’ words correct, but it was right/wrong, left/right, up/down, etc. that we would mix up- I guess maybe because you lump the opposites together in your head and know that they mean either one thing or the other, but the brain doesn’t always remember which way it works.
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At the treehouse:
Jacoba: What’s happened?
Marguerite: The monkey people have invaded
Jacoba: Assai?
Marguerite: She’s been taken by the monkey people.
Jacoba: Where is Veronica?
Marguerite: She’s here.
Inside the treehouse:
Marguerite: You are not going to rescue Assai?
Jacoba: No one will come back from the monkey people.
Jacoba [referring to Veronica]: She comes with me.
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At the Zanga village:
Jacoba: Give me my beautiful one.
[when Assai walks in]
Assai: What’s wrong?
[I don’t get the context- is it the look on his face that she’s asking about? Or this the writers’ mangled attempt at having her ask what’s going on?]
Jacoba: You will return from apeman, I thought you had died.
[slight tense issue here]
Assai: Here I am. This is the time everything/anything will be done.
[obviously pleading the case for the explorers- ‘this time, what they request will be done’, that sort of thing]
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Randomly? That quote in my post title is from Blair of Gossip Girl, talking about her and Serena. But doesn't it kinda remind you of Marguerite/Veronica? :D The dark/light parallel, and the unflattering self-portrait: '...then there’s little baby Veronica and me- I’m the wicked stepsister...' *snickers*
Hee. Australian slang makes me giggle. Wait, I'm angry right now. *frowns*
Oh, fine, I can't keep it up for long, I'm just so thrilled to be on the internet again. You guys have no idea how much I missed you all. *clings* Hope everyone had a good Easter!
Also, admire my shiny new icon! *gazes blissfully* By the incredible
odakota_rose , whose icon-making talents make me glee in the most undignified way. :D
---
Okay, moment of truth here; I'm an idiot. I was watching Bad Guys [YAY!] and it hit me. Marguerite and Vala have this other similarity that I can’t believe I overlooked before- their immense fondness for teh shinies. Both are renowned thieves in their respective universes. I love that Marguerite is a ‘jewel thief wanted on five continents’, how cool does that sound?! On a side note, this factoid is what made me squee a little in Leverage’s season finale [please, someone tell me there is going to be a second season?] when the baddie was listing each team member and their respective ‘wanted’ status. *g* [Hardison is a bit of an underachiever- Iceland? That’s it?]
---
On the off chance that this interests anyone, I’ve written up a brief translation of the Samoan exchanges in the second ep of TLW, Stranded. [Why no, I didn't have anything better to do....]
Netty made fun of them, but Ma tells me that the writers and actors did a decent job overall; the translation was correct for the most part, aside from the odd glaring error [as well as the fact that the Samoan alphabet does not include a ‘J’ or ‘Z’, but then, these are the fictional Zanga, so I think that’s excusable] and the actors did a credible job with the pronunciation and accent- though she preferred Marguerite to Jacoba, lol, whose mumbling enunciation drove her crazy. An example of a dude spitting out the lines with more attitude than accuracy, heh.
Village center:
Jacoba [to Assai]: You are so stupid/crazy.
[although Marguerite somehow translates this as ‘He says she’s threatened the village by bringing us here’]
Jacoba [to Assai]: You’re a liar as well
Assai: They need our help.
Marguerite: We come in peace because we need some help
[COME IN PEACE! *dies laughing* I love when people say that!]
---
Inside Jacoba’s hut:
Jacoba: You’re wasting your time
Marguerite: Wait. What can I give you for you to show me the [wrong] way? Veronica?
Lol. Major error there- Marguerite asks for the WRONG way, rather than what I imagine was supposed to be the RIGHT way [off the Plateau]. It’s interesting that when I was learning languages at school, we generally made errors with OPPOSITES. We might correctly recall the words for cat, dog, money, house and all that, we’d get the ‘unique’ words correct, but it was right/wrong, left/right, up/down, etc. that we would mix up- I guess maybe because you lump the opposites together in your head and know that they mean either one thing or the other, but the brain doesn’t always remember which way it works.
---
At the treehouse:
Jacoba: What’s happened?
Marguerite: The monkey people have invaded
Jacoba: Assai?
Marguerite: She’s been taken by the monkey people.
Jacoba: Where is Veronica?
Marguerite: She’s here.
Inside the treehouse:
Marguerite: You are not going to rescue Assai?
Jacoba: No one will come back from the monkey people.
Jacoba [referring to Veronica]: She comes with me.
---
At the Zanga village:
Jacoba: Give me my beautiful one.
[when Assai walks in]
Assai: What’s wrong?
[I don’t get the context- is it the look on his face that she’s asking about? Or this the writers’ mangled attempt at having her ask what’s going on?]
Jacoba: You will return from apeman, I thought you had died.
[slight tense issue here]
Assai: Here I am. This is the time everything/anything will be done.
[obviously pleading the case for the explorers- ‘this time, what they request will be done’, that sort of thing]
---
Randomly? That quote in my post title is from Blair of Gossip Girl, talking about her and Serena. But doesn't it kinda remind you of Marguerite/Veronica? :D The dark/light parallel, and the unflattering self-portrait: '...then there’s little baby Veronica and me- I’m the wicked stepsister...' *snickers*