I don't know if you know that feeling when you read a newspaper article that makes you laugh and you really want to share it with other people. Well, just today sapient pearwood pointed one of those articles out to me and I decided that a newspaper corner where you can put funny or interesting articles.
well, here's the one i read today. there's another one i'd like to show you, but i seem to have misplaced the article and though i'm sure i already translated or at least typed it, i can't find the files, so i'll put it up once i relocated either the article or one of the files...
With English subtitles
“Jump until die!”
“Now it's!” Or even: Now it's finally there! The DVD of the Thriller “The Bad Sleep Well”, made by Akira Kurosawa in 1960. Very hard to get here. But ebay makes it possible, for only 8.95€ the DVD is shipped directly from Macao. It's the story of a man who wants to take revenge for his father, the employee of a corrupt company, driven into death by his superiors. The film is about 150 minutes long, on two DVDs, in the Japanese original with English subtitles. “Close the eyes and shaking.” Pardon?
These subtitles are, well, slightly confusing. What does the revenger Toshira Mifune say to a villain he's holding a bit out of the window? “Jump down until die!” But of course doing this is difficult for the man, for logical as well as logistic reasons.
But even the revenger is worried: “My hateness is not enough.” And his friend can see that and wants to know: “Why are you headache?” Or was that someone else? Because by now the subtitles are a couple of seconds behind the spoken word. But it's already “over two o'clock” in the film, and to this special time you can't be all that strict any more. And of course you still watch it to the end, it's a damn good film after all. And the foreign language problems? Well, there the subtitles prompt all there is to say about it: “So pity!”
Save the rats, eat a dwarf!
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OMG, like that better than reading instructions on chinese software pakages ("to our surprise the product worked") mayhaps a new comedy is born
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
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that's quite funny,hehe,i think all movies should be made into japanese and then subtitled by the japanese just to start a new genre of comedy
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nah, hollywoods happy just to rip them off wholesale
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
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This comment has been moved http://www.thudgame.com/node/406#comment-33828">here.
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I know both you and Sgt L have been a bit exuberant since you have returned but please try to kept close to the topic of the threads you both post to i have moved this one to Ponders Politics as the the discussion of the "Evil Empire" seems more of a political discussion than humorous newspaper clippings and discussions of the aforesaid that this thread is about.
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Funny thread, I like it.
Here's my first contribution, an email an Israeli government official sent to the dutch Foreign Ministry. The Israeli official didn't know how to write english, or dutch, so he put his trust into babelfish and started a bit of a row by sending this "translated" email:
Helloh Bud, Enclosed five of the questions in honor of the foreign minister: The mother your visit in Israel is a sleep to the favor or to the bed your mind on the conflict are Israeli Palestinian, and on relational Israel Holland
Ehm? My mother???
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ah, the language barrier, when I am K und K of the worldeveryone will be multilingual
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
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Funny thread, I like it.
Here's my first contribution, an email an Israeli government official sent to the dutch Foreign Ministry. The Israeli official didn't know how to write english, or dutch, so he put his trust into babelfish and started a bit of a row by sending this "translated" email:
Helloh Bud, Enclosed five of the questions in honor of the foreign minister: The mother your visit in Israel is a sleep to the favor or to the bed your mind on the conflict are Israeli Palestinian, and on relational Israel Holland
Ehm? My mother???
*rolling on floor holding stomach and laughing*
im probably enjoying this more than you do, because i can guess what he meant. oh, our silly silly gov *wipes tears of laughter*
PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED "LIVING".
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Actually, it was Lupus one time.
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and pray what was the original
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
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"will your visit in israel change for better or worse your views on the israeli-palestinian conflict, and on israel-holland relations?"
PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED "LIVING".
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Actually, it was Lupus one time.
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the original sounded semi ok but nothing like that
where did mother come from?
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
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rofl!! that's hilarious
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain
Save the rats, eat a dwarf!
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i think it came from the idea of a motherland maybe?and the talk of mother being in bed may have something to do with peaceful intentions or something,i dunno
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they seem to have multiple words for mother:
פ') לשמש כאם ל- )
(ש"ע) אימא; אם )
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ת') אם
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
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do you have a different keyboard for that?
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no, though i will get it set up. that was a copy-paste job, usually i use the special characters in my star office (like word only it works and does so much more), type text then copy paste into the site then scream when i realise the site re-inverts it
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
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save a dwarf- drown a rat
So many penguins, so few recipes!!!
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they seem to have multiple words for mother:
פ') לשמש כאם ל- )
(ש"ע) אימא; אם )
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ת') אם
nope, you got it all wrong. the israeli guy used the word האם (ha'im), that is a question word used in yes \ no questions. this word can also be read as ha'em, which means the mother, and thats how babelfish translated it. the other oddities have a similar cause.
PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED "LIVING".
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Actually, it was Lupus one time.
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well serves your right for being snobby to vowels. does really mean לשמש servant? (lashmesh?)
That ain't no English I ever dun heard!
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לשמש means something on the lines of "to be used", and it's pronounced "leshamesh"
Everything's got an end. A sausage has even got two.
Sausages! Hot sausages! Inna bun! Meat pies! Get them while they're hot!
... Hole food! Hole food! Rat! Rat! Rat-onna-stick! Rat-in-a-bun! Get them while they're dead!
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I don't know if anyone else noticed it at hogwatch but outside the local shop there was a newspaper headline saying "DRUNKEN TEEN SWAIRS AT POLICE OFFICER" I just thaught it was a fab headline i dread to think what it would be in my home town
Its not my fault i can't spell, i was borned befor spellling wased invented
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you mean...this?
PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED "LIVING".
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Actually, it was Lupus one time.