Anyone Done Mandarin Translations for Our Mrs Reynolds?

POSTED BY: Rhea
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 03:54
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WNERRAW

Saturday, October 26, 2002 4:31 AM

This episode is even harder to decipher the chinese because the closed captioned text says '(speaking chinese)' instead of the normal english sound's letter equivalent.

RHEA

Saturday, October 26, 2002 6:02 AM

I'm reading the Serenity script, and I realized that Joss has the script noted like this:

Chinese:
My f**** mother!

So we should be able to put together what shows up onscreen with what Joss says it's supposed to mean in the script.:D

And if you haven't read any of the scripts, I'd recommend it - it's highly entertaining.

WNERRAW

Monday, October 28, 2002 7:26 PM

where can i get access to the scripts?

ADBO

Monday, October 28, 2002 8:35 PM

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2) When Kaylee says: "Nee boo goo gah, nee hwang chian" = unknown

But it could mean: "Nee boo gan kai nee hwang chian" = You must not open your yellow gun. With yellow gun equivalent to penis, Kaylee is saying that Mal's words are like piss. Translation: "Don't speak so nastily".

I think ur translation is right, but "huang chiang" means "Yellow Mouth/Cavity", which means speech which has strong sexual connotations. It's a great colloquial way of speaking, but it's used in the wrong way; he's just being nasty, not making a pass (in fact she's angry because he's NOT making a pass at her

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I really have no idea what Wash said after Saffron tried to seduce him, what Inara said when she found out that Mal was still alive (something "je fwitsu"), or what Zoe called Saffron ("ching hwa") after Mal regained consiousness.

I have tivo so I'll check again for these. Some are really hard since I'm believing that they are reading hanyupinyin, which has a lost of X and Z/Zh alphabets but has unique pronounciation.

In fact, for "mind your own business", all you English speaker can try to pronounce the following unassisted, and you'll find yourself say producing the same sound Mal did:

"Guan Ni Zi Zi De Shi Qing"

RHEA

Thursday, October 31, 2002 4:53 PM

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Originally posted by wnerraw:
where can i get access to the scripts?

http://buffyscripts.net/episodes/firefly/season01.html

I think only two of the scripts (including Serenity are up). I didn't want to download Serenity and watch a poor-quality movie of it, so I got the script instead. And actually, Joss' script is fun to read - his character descriptions, for instance, are interesting.

KLAUREL

Saturday, November 16, 2002 12:58 AM

One of my friend's thoughts is that as Chinese and English-speakers mixed, true Chinese kind of gave way to more of an English-speaker's Chinese.

Of course, I think that they just didn't want to pay for a dialect coach!

PAGEOFCUPS

Friday, December 6, 2002 7:40 PM

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Originally posted by Rhea:
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Originally posted by wnerraw:
where can i get access to the scripts?

http://buffyscripts.net/episodes/firefly/season01.html

I think only two of the scripts (including Serenity are up). I didn't want to download Serenity and watch a poor-quality movie of it, so I got the script instead. And actually, Joss' script is fun to read - his character descriptions, for instance, are interesting.

Either the URL there is bad, or they've been pulled. I get a "no such address" msg.

PoC

LIVINGIMPAIRED

Friday, December 6, 2002 8:10 PM

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Originally posted by PageOfCups:
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Originally posted by Rhea:
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Originally posted by wnerraw:
where can i get access to the scripts?

http://buffyscripts.net/episodes/firefly/season01.html

I think only two of the scripts (including Serenity are up). I didn't want to download Serenity and watch a poor-quality movie of it, so I got the script instead. And actually, Joss' script is fun to read - his character descriptions, for instance, are interesting.

Either the URL there is bad, or they've been pulled. I get a "no such address" msg.

PoC

Their server gave 'em the boot. They should be up the begining of next year.

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Sorry, sir. Didn't mean to enjoy the moment.

THEWRITINGWENCH

Thursday, January 23, 2003 8:38 PM

Regarding Buffyscripts and accessing the Firefly scripts there... Go into the Joss Whedon comic book (can't think of the title at the mo') and that's the only way you can access any of the Firefly scripts, but you can access the 3 that are up if you go in through this "back" door.

The Writing Wench

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Nan dèanadh mo làmh mar a dh'iarradh mo shùil!
If my hand could do as my eye would desire!

AE660

Wednesday, February 5, 2003 6:38 PM

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Originally posted by jhsiao:
2) When Kaylee says: "Nee boo goo gah, nee hwang chian" = unknown

But it could mean: "Nee boo gan kai nee hwang chian" = You must not open your yellow gun. With yellow gun equivalent to penis, Kaylee is saying that Mal's words are like piss. Translation: "Don't speak so nastily".

Whoa! Not quite right. 'Chiang' means cavity (same pronunciation as 'gun' in Mandarin). A 'yellow cavity' refers to a dirty mouth (yellow being dirty/profane/pornographic; the mouth being the cavity).

Kaylee was saying Mal shouldn't open his dirty mouth.

Breakdown:

Nee = You

boo gai = should not (not should)

kai = open

nee (duh) = Missing a word here. "Nee duh" would mean 'your'.

hwang chiang = yellow cavity

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