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Cixah
United States11285 Posts
On November 08 2013 07:01 Requizen wrote: That seems kinda... /whistle TIME THE FUCK OUT. There is a major difference between playing a Children's Card Game, and playing with devil children. Murlocs are actually the people of the world who commit murders. Their crimes are sent to the Great Blizzard in the Sky, where they can be rewoven into a physical form that more suites their malformed souls. | ||
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JonGalt
Pootie too good!4331 Posts
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Slayer91
Ireland23362 Posts
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
On November 08 2013 22:56 Alaric wrote: Do you guys need a translation when you read non-american stuff like Pratchett's or Adams' humour?  on that note, the german (and i suspect other languages also) translations of their books are really horrifying to read. it's like pratchett isn't even funny anymore because legit 100% of the puns are completely lost in translation, which coincidentially is also a pretty bad movie. | ||
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Slayer91
Ireland23362 Posts
on prattchett: "When parties are interested in unprepossessing land, it might just pay for smaller parties to buy up any neighboring plots, just in case the party of the first part had heard something, possibly at a party." cant translate that or even say it 10 times fast for that matter | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21247 Posts
On November 08 2013 22:46 Alaric wrote: Try drinking at work, you're in the right situation apparently. Best way to read works in their original language is actually not to have English as a mother tongue, who would have known? I learned Chinese before English, though the side effect of living in glorious 'murica is that my English is now better than my Chinese, but I'm fluent in both so whatever. I "learned" French through high school but didn't feel like I actually learned anything and now can do nothing but jam together words in some pathetic attempt to convey meaning. Nothing more than very low level proficiency, and not even close to a level where I can read works and be able to appreciate them. I wish I was fluent enough in German, Italian, and Russian... | ||
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Slayer91
Ireland23362 Posts
edit: http://www.hjkeen.net/halqn/dscwlde4.htm so funny the plots of some of the books arent nearly as good as just reading it for the puns | ||
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
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Sponkz
Denmark4564 Posts
On November 08 2013 23:18 mordek wrote: How would one say "lucker dogs" in French? Luckre deugs | ||
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Slayer91
Ireland23362 Posts
On November 08 2013 23:18 mordek wrote: How would one say "lucker dogs" in French? That's more of a germanic taunt. French guys would say like "go play lotto" and maybe throw in the fan favourites "whore" and "useless" somewhere | ||
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Requizen
United States33802 Posts
On November 08 2013 23:00 Cixah wrote: TIME THE FUCK OUT. There is a major difference between playing a Children's Card Game, and playing with devil children. Murlocs are actually the people of the world who commit murders. Their crimes are sent to the Great Blizzard in the Sky, where they can be rewoven into a physical form that more suites their malformed souls. I like how you've posted in this thread since that, like your murloc senses were tingling and you had to go back and start some shit to defend your honor. | ||
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mordek
United States12705 Posts
On November 08 2013 23:23 Slayer91 wrote: That's more of a germanic taunt. French guys would say like "go play lotto" and maybe throw in the fan favourites "whore" and "useless" somewhere See, we miss out on so much culture over on NA servers. | ||
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Slayer91
Ireland23362 Posts
"whore" is a meh word for solo q, has a long droning sound, good for an fight with a woman maybe when you can stress it, but lacks a bite. "putain" can be rather spit out, however, thus its popularity. similarly "nul" might be better than useless but "fucking useless" translates well to "absolutement de nul" or similar. "piece of shit" "fils de putain" etc german/nordic people speak better english but in their rage tend to resort to bastardized terms that are much more hilarious | ||
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Alaric
France45622 Posts
Party's annoying because it's really easy to come up with puns about it, but in French not only you can't use "partie" for a celebration, designating groups as "les parties" is only done in the juridic domain. These puns always make me sad.  The problem doesn't exactly come from the puns though, Pratchett (and even moreso Adams) don't rely on puns as much as on wording and tongue-in-cheek for their humour. I dunno for German, but a lot of English's wording simply doesn't sound natural in French: lengthening something's name with a lot of adjective quickly becomes awkward or straight-up unreadable because of determiners spam. Another thing is that French's passive form is much more convoluted than English's. Oftimes if you try to keep the original formulation you go from a long but smooth proposition to a mumbo-jumbo of words that's tedious to read and loses you to its meaning halfway through. And if you change the form to keep the nub, the way French is written you usually lose a lot of the concision and punch of the sentence. It usually lessens the impact of the satire, makes the jabs less sharp. Figuratively, when translating this kind of humour in French you tend to go from a heavyweight casually throwing punches while strolling around a smile on his face, to a barking tiny dog biting on your calves. And then you can add the puns on top of that. | ||
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
if it didn't sound like vocal cancer it'd almost be interesting. | ||
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Slayer91
Ireland23362 Posts
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ticklishmusic
United States15977 Posts
On November 08 2013 20:41 Slayer91 wrote: I heard lots of Asians simply don't have the genes to tolerate alcohol, like most Europeans just auto have genes that let them drink milk and alcohol by the gallon because water wasn't safe to drink so everyone else died LOL. I asked howard but he said he was lactose intolerant but just kept drinking milk until it went away, so it could be less genetic than it was thought. In terms of muricans and health, taking pills to solve everything is just dumb. Everyone needs to eat some damn food that gives tons of shit we discovered that good and probably tons of shit we haven't. and no shit like "might fix your stomach ache but sideeffects may include heart disease dick cancer, hating gays and death". Like if you eat tons of empty calories like in chocolate/candy/bread/corn based stuff you have to eat so much to give your body the same nutrition as some 120 lb liberal vegan lesbian. If everyone just ate only meat/fruit/veg/dairy/eggs I bet there would be far fewer problems with healthcare and obesity. Thing is businesses make money off people buying pills constantly and eating more food so theres sort of a conflict of interests from that point of view. Also as for using the words rape and fag online in like 20 years nobody is going to care and everyones going to be casually racist and homophobic just like we are in TL with gingers and Asians (where are all the jews on TL? I guess they all hangout in TL+ LOL) Actually we (the master race) have an alternate form of alcohol dehydrogenase which is what converts alcohol to acetylaldehyde that is super efficient, so we basically process alcohol super fast. Unfortunately, this means we don't get drunk, we just get the nasty hangover-ish effects super fast. We're working on fixing it. | ||
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Sponkz
Denmark4564 Posts
On November 09 2013 00:01 Slayer91 wrote: yeah, some things don't translate. "whore" is a meh word for solo q, has a long droning sound, good for an fight with a woman maybe when you can stress it, but lacks a bite. "putain" can be rather spit out, however, thus its popularity. similarly "nul" might be better than useless but "fucking useless" translates well to "absolutement de nul" or similar. "piece of shit" "fils de putain" etc german/nordic people speak better english but in their rage tend to resort to bastardized terms that are much more hilarious Best rage, is the raging in your native language. I really think you can sound incredibly offensive by cursing in Danish compared to English (maybe that's because English is more universal, idk). Also makes for fun shit when you meet other Scandinavian people, it sort of starts an apocalypse in the chat | ||
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
On November 09 2013 00:08 Slayer91 wrote: you are a cancer gamer dandel i know | ||
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Slayer91
Ireland23362 Posts
unfortunately i cant speak irish and everyone from ireland is too terribad to be close to my elo he admitted it x9 him | ||
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