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Fri Feb-17-06 12:58 PM
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| 18. How is it actually pronounced, Captain Swahili? |
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If I ever do an Aime Cesaire production, I'll need to know. It'd be as embarassing as when I found out Ray Davies's last name is pronounced "Davis." And all of my friends were there.
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| -Anglicizing foreign languages. |
Vash the Stampede |
Feb-17-06 10:06 AM |
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kick for the hiding geniuses |
Vash the Stampede |
Feb-17-06 11:31 AM |
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Another thing i don't get is... |
hobo_baggins |
Feb-17-06 11:33 AM |
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Creative Translations |
Ravenseye |
Feb-17-06 11:52 AM |
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bastards...gimmie the translation, not some adapted work! |
hobo_baggins |
Feb-17-06 11:53 AM |
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all translation is adapted work |
fishwax |
Feb-17-06 12:50 PM |
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There are a couple of reasons. |
Benfea |
Feb-17-06 11:46 AM |
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I guess that makes sense. |
Vash the Stampede |
Feb-17-06 12:18 PM |
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I can answer for Arabic |
Ravenseye |
Feb-17-06 11:51 AM |
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Interesting |
cassandra uprising |
Feb-17-06 11:54 AM |
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Probably more |
Ravenseye |
Feb-17-06 11:58 AM |
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That makes perfect sense, however... |
Vash the Stampede |
Feb-17-06 12:17 PM |
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I think it's using a character for an alternate sound |
Ravenseye |
Feb-17-06 12:36 PM |
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Genghis Khan or Chinggis Khan? Zheng He or Cheng Ho? |
jpgray |
Feb-17-06 12:40 PM |
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And why, in sci-fi... |
Orsino |
Feb-17-06 12:45 PM |
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I just don't get why they all speak English |
Ravenseye |
Feb-17-06 01:17 PM |
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At least with Lord of the Rings, there was an explanation. |
Vash the Stampede |
Feb-17-06 02:27 PM |
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There's usually some sort of "universal translator" at work, |
lakemonster11 |
Feb-17-06 03:18 PM |
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You should see the way we transliterate Sanskrit |
billyskank |
Feb-17-06 12:51 PM |
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Uhuru! |
jpgray |
Feb-17-06 12:52 PM |
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Yes! |
billyskank |
Feb-17-06 12:55 PM |
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How is it actually pronounced, Captain Swahili? |
jpgray |
Feb-17-06 12:58 PM |
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I haven't the faintest idea, old boy |
billyskank |
Feb-17-06 12:59 PM |
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As for Mandarin |
Lurking_Argyle |
Feb-17-06 01:03 PM |
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That was great! |
Vash the Stampede |
Feb-17-06 02:29 PM |
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That's basically it |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Feb-17-06 10:07 PM |
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Learn BoPoMoFo |
dpbrown |
Feb-17-06 10:16 PM |
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Yeah, but it's not exactly a romanization, is it? |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Feb-17-06 11:31 PM |
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People can learn the Greek alphabet, why not the Chinese? |
dpbrown |
Feb-18-06 09:52 AM |
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Yeah, right, and Cyrillic and Hangul, too |
Lydia Leftcoast |
Feb-18-06 10:15 AM |
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Now THAT would build diversity and understanding! |
dpbrown |
Feb-19-06 01:38 PM |
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To complete the story |
Lurking_Argyle |
Feb-17-06 11:43 PM |
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To complete the completion |
dpbrown |
Feb-18-06 09:46 AM |
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My favourite is Tchaikovsky and Chekov. |
tjwmason |
Feb-17-06 02:34 PM |
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I don't know who, but they probably wanted a "c" in there because |
lakemonster11 |
Feb-17-06 03:20 PM |
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Probably because English-speaking brains freeze when a word starts with ts |
Benfea |
Feb-17-06 09:47 PM |
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Ben Tsideways? |
jpgray |
Feb-17-06 10:10 PM |
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Ack! I'm groggy. |
Benfea |
Feb-17-06 11:22 PM |
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In my experience with languages other than English, |
SOteric |
Feb-17-06 03:52 PM |
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Japanese is probably the best at being anglicized |
sakabatou |
Feb-18-06 12:03 AM |
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Pinyin wasn't originally intended for English speakers |
Bear down under |
Feb-18-06 01:06 AM |
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It was also, I believe, |
bezdomny |
Feb-18-06 02:41 AM |
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A BoPoMoFo keyboard is faster once you learn it |
dpbrown |
Feb-18-06 09:58 AM |
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The Communist government also created simplified Chinese |
dpbrown |
Feb-18-06 10:01 AM |
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