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Category: mistranslations

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most quoted re "mistranslations": Jonathan North Washington (10), other (3), Tristan Alexander McLeay (2), Joyce (1), Derek Gulas (1)

other categories found with "mistranslations": language (9), russian (4), provincialism (2), patriotism (2), spanish (2)

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[link] heard: 13 October 2008
[edit] added: 13 October 2008

(15:22:45) [me]: typing while translating from Russian isn't an exact science

Jonathan North Washington

language, russian, typos, mistranslations, science

[comment] [rate] no rating

[link] heard: 24 July 2008
[edit] added: 24 July 2008

(19:13:28) [me]: yeah, they have a lot of quays in canada

(19:13:39) [Tristan]: probably to keep the americans out

Tristan Alexander McLeay, Jonathan North Washington

patriotism, provincialism, language, mistranslations, language, french, puns

[comment] [rate] 3/5

[link] heard: 17 May 2008
[edit] added: 17 May 2008

(17:23:23) [me]: "More data would have to be gathered to determine what the underlying cause of these dichotomies is"

(17:23:37) [me]: (is there anything you'd change with that?)

(17:24:31) kesuari: (yes, of course i would; i find academic written language and the spoken language that is essentially its read version incredibly hard to understand)

(17:24:49) kesuari: (but unfortunately making it just normal english wouldn't be thesis-like enough)

(17:24:50) syljwesandhr: (so what would you change?)

(17:25:11) kesuari: "if we want to work out what actually causing these differences, we'll have to get more data"

Tristan Alexander McLeay, Jonathan North Washington

gradschool, writing, language, linguistics, sadness, provincialism, insightfulness, misparsings, mistranslations

[comment] [rate] 4/5

[link] heard: 10 February 2008
[edit] added: 10 February 2008

Назгүл: "Я хочу взяться за это дело."

мен: "Кандай?"

Назгүл: "Ошол ишти баштайын деп элем."

мен: "А ‘взяться’ деген не?"

Назгүл: "‘Алуу’ деген мааниси берет."

мен: "Бирок кыргызча котормосунда ‘алуу’ деген сөздү айткан жоксуң."

Назгүл: "Я не профессионал."

Jonathan North Washington, other

language, mistranslations, russian, kyrgyz, multilingualisms, turkic

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[link] heard: 15 May 2007
[edit] added: 15 May 2007

Chuck: "There's Low German forms, Middle High German forms, Upper High German forms, and even Anglo-Frisian forms. This is weird!"

Derek: "Maybe a non-native speaker wrote it."

Chuck: "Or they had some pretty heavy stuff back then."

Derek Gulas, professors

non-nativisms, drugs, badness, mistranslations, germanics

[comment] [rate] no rating

[link] heard: 29 March 2007
[edit] added: 29 March 2007

Jonathan: "My favourite translation tool on the internet is to look something up on wikipedia in the source language, and then click the link to the article in the destination language."

Joyce: "Oh yeah, I only ever did that to look up how Star Trek was written in katakana."

Joyce, Jonathan North Washington

star-trek, geekiness, sadness, language, tv, mistranslations, technology, computers, writing, japanese

[comment] [rate] 3/5

[link] heard: 30 July 2005
[edit] added: 31 July 2005

"Spaniards, they are son of the bitch."

other

Noél

patriotism, spanish, mistranslations, swseel, inappropriateness

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[link] heard: 13 July 2004
[edit] added: 13 July 2004

Jonathan: "Это маленький мир."