Comments | byelka58: In Which We Increase Our Collective Vocabulary.

byelka58

In Which We Increase Our Collective Vocabulary.

Mar 04, 2006 22:03

Classes are over for the quarter, as of Friday; starting this Monday it's reading week, and then finals week after that. Then, mercifully, it will be Spring Break. SB arrives not a moment too soon, because I would very much like to pet my cats and say hi to my family and get my loom on, and also because my mother was out until two-thirty this ( Read more... )

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gabbiana March 5 2006, 21:04:17 UTC

Way to post a .mp3 that *none* of the media players on my computer can open, and which I can't find on KaZaA. You intend to drive me mad, don't you? Well, don't worry, because physiology already has. I totally wanted to hear a folk song about syphilis, too. I mean, it's like the American version of "Song of Sixpence" or "London Bridge" or "Ring Around the Rosie." Why *not* transpose horrific events into song?

"Work with me, Annie" also underwent the sort of metamorphosis you describe with that folk song ("Annie Had a Baby" being the first and best logical conclusion).

For that block of German, BabelFish gives me:
Who would have thought that that we to secondly no 15 lbs truthahn (approx. 7KG) away wars? We strove however fairly. And lecker was it. Very lecker even. Absolutely totally lecker. Completely extremely lecker. Thus, correctly well tasted. We could only have along-boarded still one or two of you. Or three. Five. Perhaps even 10.For the last time, Rachel, please don't post languages I don't understand without ( ... )

byelka58 March 6 2006, 00:19:31 UTC

My fault! I linked it wrong: underscore, not hyphen. You can listen now, if your media players are not sulking from aspersions cast upon them.

The German, in my opinion, reads:Who would have thought that the two of us couldn't put away a 15 lb. (7 KG) turkey? We made an honest effort, though. And it was delicious. Actually, very delicious. Absolutely totally delicious. Thoroughly extremely delicious. Which is to say, it tasted quite good. Only, we could have fed one or two of you as well. Or three. Five. Actually, maybe 10.
I don't post translations because I get an enormous kick out of seeing who bothers to Babelfish it, and how ludicrous it becomes. Also, in your case, to rub it in.

Sure, FFX and LotR are one and the same in that "a quest's a quest" way. In this case, I think you would need to be familiar with the end of FFX in order to see how well it fits the mood of "Into the West." Or, like me, you could resolve not to let your lack of familiarity with particular cultural tidbits prevent you from laughing at their ( ... )

gabbiana March 5 2006, 22:16:45 UTC

Also: Ha-ha, your mom is cooler than you.

byelka58 March 6 2006, 00:20:50 UTC

So is yours.

kalliwoda March 6 2006, 13:28:02 UTC

Adorkable is fabulous, by the way, and it reminded me of a conversation I had in the local British pub with the gay friend of a friend, in town to audition for Eastman.

What's his face: Look at that girl's sleeves. The "maiden" look is so 1993, don't you think? I mean, it just looks so dated or something.

Me: Um, yeah, I guess.

I know it's a long-standing joke that gay guys are ridiculously fashion-conscious, but I've never had the privilege of knowing what year was associated with a particular look, or of talking to someone that knew. All I can say is: Wow.

byelka58 March 6 2006, 16:58:55 UTC

That's actually kind of frightening. It's one thing to say, "Remember wearing Keds with two pairs of socks?" or "Why is everyone suddenly wearing those hideous boots?" - you know, vaguely in some decade, or right now - but encyclopedic knowledge dating back to the early nineties? How does he have room in his brain for Baroque composers?