Lost in Translation

[Shelob]

Since you all seem to be having fun with mistranslations here's a site called (appropriately enough) Lost in Translation ...this one takes an English phrase and runs it through this cycle:

English-->French
French-->English
English-->German
German-->English
English-->Italian
Italian-->English
English-->Portuguese
Portuguese-->English
English-->Spanish
Spanish-->English

10 different translations...with an option to add Chinese, Japanese, and Korean into the mix...

For Example the simple enough line "One Ring to Rule them all" ends up as "A cycle, to govern it everything" ...not quite the same...

if you're interested though the entire process looks like this:

Original English Text:
One ring to rule them all

Translated to French:
Une boucle pour les régner tous

Translated back to English:
A loop to reign them all

Translated to German:
Eine Schleife, zum zu regieren sie alle

Translated back to English:
A loop, to to govern it all

Translated to Italian:
Un ciclo, a governarlo tutto

Translated back to English:
A cycle, to govern it all

Translated to Portuguese:
Um ciclo, para governá-lo todo

Translated back to English:
A cycle, to govern it all

Translated to Spanish:
Un ciclo, gobernarlo todo

Translated back to English:
A cycle, to govern it everything

Hope it adds to the confusion of the translations.

[Alcarillo]

The feeding of the track goes of the door, that one that begins saldamente.

That is, using Shelob's wonderful translator:

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.

[wilwarin538]

my precious becomes inestimable mine and with the Chinese, Japanese and Korean its my important articles.

[The Saucepan Man]

Thought I'd try my current signature:

He had saucepans and kettles hung all over him, he wore a saucepan for a hat, and he crashed two saucepans together as he danced!

'Do you think he's dangerous?' said Joe, in a whisper.

Without Chinese, Japanes and Korean, it becomes the rather mystifying:

It had bathtubs and the boilers arrested it in all the part, took a bathtub to a protection that it protected and they analyzed it underneath two bathtubs, when to dance!

'The thoughts that are dangerous' the aforesaid Joe, within me whisper.

Add Chinese, Japanese and Korean and it becomes the wholly bamboozling:

Which you have it relative preoccupation of the POTENTIOMETER and by the supermarket for him ã... the effect of the POTENTIOMETER ã. The organization so that the decree of protection not to have, then he, he of the repairs of the protection danced such in the left in potentiometers of time 2 of the totality!

'He considers himself dangerous?' whisper a lower excessive Kiefer.

Who's this Kiefer?

[Elrowen Tinúviel]

That the messages of the south, the wind of Sighing or, in advance
obtain to the payment I to them to the day? Is Boromir the fair where
hour? Tarries and is betruebt.

once began as:

What news from the South, o sighing wind, do you bring to me at eve?
Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve.

-Elrowen

[Shelob]

"Who's this Kiefer?" ~ The Saucepan Man (or should that be "Provide with personnel the POTENTIOMETER")


Well..."Kiefer" is the German word for either a 'Pine Tree' or a 'Jaw' (depends on whether it's feminine or masculine)...and looking at the translation-tree I'm going with 'Jaw'...though 'Pine Tree' would would have been far more entertaining...

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Be he friend or foe, or seed defiled
Of Morgoth, Elf, or mortal child . . .

becomes

It is a friend or an enemy or the seed which is of Morgoth, of eleven or of the child of death defiled. (the dwarf's link)

and

Comfortable or hostile, or granulated it is decided to him of Morgoth,
eleven or the boy of inoperative women. (the spider's link)

and

Which if one worries the relative friend is the enemy or the Morgoth,
the dwarf or the chain to spill of å*�é ¹ absolutely that the advance
type of here. (ibid with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean)

Crazy. Imagine Fëanor and his sons saying stuff like that.

Noldor: Have you been smoking pipeweed again?!

[Alcarillo]

Gandalf's famous words:

"You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass."

become (with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean):

" They cannot cross ",; it said. The Orcs of the positions
corrects for calmilo under the calm and inoperative women. " The
personal of the fire are, more when wielder the flame of the secret of
Anor. They we are not probably crosspieces. The end of the dark work
of the fire the objective of the flame, that one is used for Ud_n. It
enters the color! Not to the forms, it does not know the steps,
material they of "

which in turn becomes:

" They cannot cross ", ; it visualized that Orcs of the
positions for calmilo between the calm and the women to that
nonfunctioning recovers. " The team of the employees of the fire
is more if more when wielder, the flame of segretezza of Anor.
Crosspieces are not probably we them. The extremity of the dark work
of the fire the space of the training of the flame, this one is used
for Ud_n. The color writes! Not with the forms, it knows does not
become they, " of the physical dowry;