You Knew It Was Comming: War Stories Translations
POSTED BY: LivingImpaired
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 14:25
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Originally posted by Mark:
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Given that it's called Coca Cola because, originally, it contained an extract of the Coca plant (A.K.A Cocaine!) I think 'Delicious Very Happy' is an interesting choice.
But 'Bite the Wax Tadpole' was funnier.
In fact it still contains extract from the Coca plant, this is apraently out of habit because when it goes through it's filtering process (i.e. no more cocaine) it loses anything it might add.
No one ever seems to care about the Kola in Coca Cola, everyone is hung up on the Coca.
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I was wondering what Mal said during the shuttle scene with Zoe and Wash when he said, "Well this is a fine {Chinese phrase} but I don't have time to unravel it!"
Yeah, what WAS that? I was all confused because that didn't make sense.
"Did he just go crazy and fall asleep?" -Wash
"I told him to sit down," -Simon
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Originally posted by Kaythryn:
and in Africa, Gerber baby food read something like "Caucasian baby in a jar". Yummy.
Actually, it was the picture on the jar. In S.Africa, because so many people were illiterate, cans/jars of food showed a picture of the contents.
The can for Gerber showed a smiling plump white kid
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Fireflywiki has some translations for this episode: http://www.average-bear.com/wiki/index.php/WarStories
Does anyone know what the deal with that site is? None of the links on the pages work, you have to Google over to the section you want, and if you want to change sections you have to Google to it again.
[Edit: Nevermind, I found the real link - http://www.fireflywiki.org/index.php/HomePage]
No power in the 'verse can stop me.
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Hey, I just found a Beijing dialect dictionary and bought it immediatly. It's really funny! I think Mandarin is so static because it's basically a common language that's been emasculated by political correctness, while regional dialects tend to have more flavor--the only regional phrase I knew in Beijing was "xie cai" (cut vegetables), which sort of meant "get out of here!"
Anyway, it's not anywhere near the playfulness of Cantonese (not that I speak Yueyu, but I'm learning)--but we shouldn't discount it entirely.
(I'm apparently tipsy from some Taiwan shaoshu minzu de baijiu I just bought, so if I don't make sense, that's why.)
http://dryope.typepad.com/superfly/
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