BDHs speak French!

POSTED BY: Rednax
UPDATED: Monday, December 12, 2005 02:27
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um is it me or does simon just seem better in french?

shakespeare: more words than God.

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I think here is a good opportunity for one of my favorite internet games: babelfish translation!
My friends and I have whiled away many working hours by insulting each other in languages we don't know and trying to decipher the insult, which is invariably funnier coming back.

Here is the French description translated back into English:

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The captain Malcom "Badly" Reynolds is a hardened veteran who was the wrong to choose the bad camp in the last galactic war. The weapons are kill, the order reigns from now on under the authority of Alliance and Malcolm the rebel launched out in new adventures to the orders of the Serenity vessel and the head of a small crew as faithful as devoted. Badly is not the only one to resist the heavy domination of Alliance. At the school of the future elites, the young person To rivet proclamation since always a savage independence of mind. Telepathic faculties and the gifts of warlike that it developed before the seventeen years age worry the leaders. Those chose to put the teenager at the secrecy. A medical team consequently endeavours to model her spirit and to suppress her "bad tendencies" by the daily administration of drugs surpuissantes... When his/her brother, Simon, the extract of force of the Center of Conditioning and take refuge with it on board Serenity, the mode entrusts to its best sleuthhound, the Operator, the care to neutralize them by all the means. Fleeing the vessels of Alliance, Mal gains the borders of the galaxy where grinds the barbarian tribe and cannibal of the "Reavers". A new adventure starts - most dangerous that ever Serenity lived...
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"Sleuthhound"

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Quote:

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Originally posted by allarticulate:
Malcom "Badly" Reynolds

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"Captain'll come up with a plan."
"Well, that's good, right?"
"Possibly you're not recalling some of his previous plans."



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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

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hey guys
thanks for the detailed replies! I particularly like the idea that in the Quebecois trailer he says 'd'accord' and in the French one 'okay'. Seems to fit in pretty well with my experience learning French in the two different places.

I saw Buffy in France, but found it hard to watch as I just kept thinking the voices were 'wrong'. Same with some other shows - I did find that often they seemed to choose voices that were pitched just too high... but then someone said to me they could tell right off I was an English speaker just because my voice was too low.

Taggart... 'il est mort', no matter how much of a Marseille accent it's in, is never going to have the effect of 'he's deid'.

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This makes me wonder now whether there are different Spanish dubs as well, as there are a LOT of different accents. I wonder what the R1 Spanish dub is like for the film or series, anybody know? *doesn't speak French, but is interested in dubs to begin with* A better question, actually - how well does it/do they match up to the translation/feel of the English dialogue? Because I've learning Spanish and would like to practice it, but I'm not 100% capable of keeping up with Spanish dubs yet (I'm usually lucky to get the gist of of a scene or single line in a scene), so I'm wondering if it would work if I watched the Spanish dub with English subs (I have the box set now, so I could do that)?

Hmmm... *checks out one of the Spanish links*

Quote:

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Y ahora... los chalecos marrones.

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Es nosotros! They mention us Browncoats in it! (On a side note, apparently there's no feminine form for "chaleco", which apparently translates to "vest" or "waistcoat" which means...)

Soy una chaleco marrón! (That translates, I think, to "I am a (female) Browncoat!" *hopes the translation is 100% accurate* On a side note, "ser", from which you get "soy" in Spanish, is a term used for anything to do with identity and has a connotation of "always". *newbie language nerd* Which sums up how I really have begun to feel about this series! )

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Durante años, se podía ser trekkie, jedi o incluso echar de menos al profesor Robinson de Perdidos en el espacio.

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...er... something about over the years... something about Trekkies and... Jedi? And something about space.

Damn. I really need to study more... I'd have to look up most of those words.

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Ahora, existe una nueva tendencia, todavía desconocida en España: los chalecos marrones.

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"Now, there exists a new something (tendency? that can't be right), something something in Spain: the Browncoats."

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Así se autodenominan los fanáticos de la serie Firefly.

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I think that latter part any English speaker could discern the meaning of. ;)

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Su presión y su unión consiguieron que saliera adelante el proyecto de Serenity. ¡Frikis al poder!

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Something about... adoring? The something of Serenity... project, I think, I'll have to double-check... yes, that means project. Argh. I really, really, really need to study more...

Er... so, does it match up pretty well?


-Runa27





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