You Knew It Was Comming: War Stories Translations
POSTED BY: LivingImpaired
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 14:25
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It's a dirty job, but someone's got to start the translation thread for the latest episode. So? What were they saying. I am paticularly interested in “Tai-kong suo-yo duh shing-chiou doh sai-jin wuh dhu pee-goo!”
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Wanna meat the real me?
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"dhu pee-goo" sounds like "pig's ass" to me...
Other dialogue from the closed captions:
1) Simon: Whoa! "Mei-mei" how you doing?
mei mei = little sister
2) Mal: "Fang-tzang fong-kwong duh zie."
fong-kwong duh = giving off light(?)
3) Mal: Hey, I let that "niou-se" trick of yours slide because this is a milk run. But when I go on a mission, I'm taking Zoe and that's the drill.
niou = urine
se = shit
4) Mal: Yeah, the stuff legends are... "Tzao-gao!"
(gunshots fired)
Wash: Now I'm learning about scary.
tzao-gao = oh crap!
5) Mal: There's plenty of orders of mine that she didn't obey.
Wash: Name one!
Mal: She married you!
(Niska walks in)
Mal: "Tah-mah-duh hwun-dan."
According to the official script at the Firefly website, that last line was supposed to mean "mother-humping son of a b*tch."
6) Book: Huh choo-sheng tza-jiao duh tzang-huo!
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This is total and utter hell. I still haven't figured it all out.
Tai-kong = ?
suo-yo duh = everything
shing-chiou doh = we wanted to say
sai-jin = was about
wuh dhu pee-goo = my ass
I am totally confused with the "Tai-Kong"
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"Tzao-gao!"
Equivalent of "We have a problem" or, perhaps, OH S***.
And I am going to stop here. I have repeated the words so much, I am losing the Chinese syntax!
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Tai-kong =Space maybe? As in "Tai-kong chuan" space ship.
Tai-kong suo-yo duh shing-chiou doh sai-jin wuh dhu pee-goo
"Everything in space is stuffed up my @$$"
That's my best guess.
-Gaheris
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“Tai-kong suo-yo duh shing-chiou doh sai-jin wuh dhu pee-goo!”
Taikong suoyou de xingqiu dou sai jin wo de pigu
Oh my gosh, as I was typing it in Hanyu Pinyin, I realized what he said. 
Pretty much, Wash said "Stuff all the planets in the universe into my @$$"
taikong = space
suoyou de = all of (something)
xingqiu = planet
dou = all
sai jin = stuff into
wo de = my
pigu = @$$
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Oops, I didn't notice someone has already translated.
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hehehe. That's hysterical! is that what Wash said during his fight with Zoe?
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Mal: Did you tell her?
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I can't help but think that Firefly would have been more hilarious if instead of Mandarin they spoke Cantonese.
Seriously, some of this stuff has "say it in Cantonese" on it.
For instance:
PiGu is boring when compared to the Cantonese equivalent of SiFut or SiFutLoung
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Originally posted by Haken:
I can't help but think that Firefly would have been more hilarious if instead of Mandarin they spoke Cantonese.
Seriously, some of this stuff has "say it in Cantonese" on it.
For instance:
PiGu is boring when compared to the Cantonese equivalent of SiFut or SiFutLoung
I agree. I'm a native Mandarin speaker but picked up some Cantonese from my friends. Cantonese, like all the southern Chinese dialects, tend to be more slangish, therefore allowing expressions to be much funnier than Mandarin. Mandarin is a bit too formal for most of the stuff said on Firefly. But then again, if they spoke Cantonese, I wouldn't understand much
Ni hao, wo shi Lucha Nan.
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Originally posted by luchanan:
Mandarin is a bit too formal for most of the stuff said on Firefly. But then again, if they spoke Cantonese, I wouldn't understand much
Yeah. I think unless you're a native Cantonese speaker, it'll be hard for outsiders to understand. Just to provide an example for the masses:
English word: Crazy
Standard Cantonese: ChiSin, which translates to sticking lines (short circuit).
Cantonese slang: ChiMaGun, which translates to sticky Maxi-Pads.
Basically, Catonese speakers like to play with words and phrases a lot since meaning many times are derived from context and not actual meaning of the words or phrase themselves.
Though I have no idea who came up with the above phrase for crazy, it's widely used and is heard in movies and tv shows a lot.
I don't think there is a Mandarin equivalent. Is there?
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