You Knew It Was Comming: War Stories Translations
POSTED BY: LivingImpaired
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 14:25
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Mandarin is a much more...archaic language and though there IS slang it usually involves talking about animals in the like when insults abound. It's also a bit stiffer than Cantonese so though multiple meanings abound, few puns of that sort are common. The one example I remember is usually used w hen teaching non-chinese Mandarin how "I want to ask you" with a slight inflection change can be I want to kiss you. I'm sure that there are slang like that which exist but I can't think of any at the moment.
-Gaheris
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From what I understand, Joss thought he was getting Cantonese and didn't realize right away it was Mandrarin. Search me if I know where I read it, though - somewhere they were talking about the lady who's been doing the translations for the show.
Now that I think about it, I think it's buried somewhere in the "Ask Joss and Cheryl" thread at the official board.
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Originally posted by Rhea:
From what I understand, Joss thought he was getting Cantonese and didn't realize right away it was Mandrarin. Search me if I know where I read it, though - somewhere they were talking about the lady who's been doing the translations for the show.
Now that I think about it, I think it's buried somewhere in the "Ask Joss and Cheryl" thread at the official board.
It's from an official video interview on the official website.
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I don't know,
PiGu = Fart Drum
sounds pretty funny to me...
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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
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okay. so what did Book say?
~*Saint of Cheese*~
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What did Book say? Context is "When did I ever ask what the captain thought."
His chinese was "Everything in space is stuffed up my @$$" Basically he's saying bullshit to Zoe's comment and setting up for his own. Possibly an "and" before the comment is warranted as in "The captain..." "And everything in space is..." but that's arguable.
-Gaheris
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no. not wash...Book.
Book: Huh choo-sheng tza-jiao duh tzang-huo!
I didn't see that anyone translated it. Maybe i'm being stupid. 
~*Saint of Cheese*~
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Originally posted by bobknaptor:
hehehe. That's hysterical! is that what Wash said during his fight with Zoe?
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Mal: Did you tell her?
Yes. LOL!
You know you're in trouble when your man sneers "Lambie toes" at you during a fight!
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Luchanan:
It would be of great use if someone would make a little website with a translator from Cantonese to English. If a fan could type in the English equivalents that are given in the captions of the show, it could give an approximate translation. I undertand that Cantonese is a very tonal language, and that translation is not simple.
I use a machine-translation website frequently for some European languages and it is OK. It also has a Chinese-to-English translator, but I do not know what dialect it uses. Below is the link. What do you think of this site? Do you feel that it gives and accurate translation?
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr
Thank you, Luchanan
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