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Translation game - version

Postby france-eesti » 2016-03-16, 9:33

Bonjour à tous !
Just trying to launch this game and see if it works and if it gets followers... That's the opposite of the initial translation game. Thus, let's write a sentence in French and try to translate it into English. :D

OK, I'll give the first kick :


Les travailleurs ont fait grève mercredi pour protester contre la loi sur l'emploi.
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Postby uzferry » 2016-03-16, 10:26

The workers were on a strike Wednesday to protest against laws on the employment (dunno if "employment laws" sound fine)

On a beau dire et prétendre, le monde nous quitte bien avant qu'on s'en aille pour de bon.

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Postby france-eesti » 2016-03-16, 12:51

Whatever's said and claimed, the world leaves us long before we've gone for good.

La paranoïa la prenait aux tripes et elle s’imaginait sans peine voir s'afficher sur l'IRM une immense tâche verte, témoin de l’aigreur qui la dominait.
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Postby Ashkhan » 2016-03-17, 0:32

The gut-wrenching paranoia made her imagine an immense green spot appear on the MRI, a witness to the sourness that dominated her.

Il leva les yeux vers le ciel, visible à travers une fente dans le plafond aménagée à ce seul effet. Il était minuit. L'ère Deuxième, l'âge du chaos, venait juste de débuter.

(This is actually harder than the original game. :darn: )
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Re: Translation game - version

Postby france-eesti » 2016-03-17, 12:49

He raised his eyes to the sky, that was visible through a thoughtully-settled slit of the ceiling. It was midnight. Era II, the age of chaos, had just started.

Milda finit par se calmer en avalant une bouteille de liqueur rescapée, qu’elle avait gardée pour un jour de gloire. Jamais elle n’a été aussi loin de ladite gloire.
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Postby uzferry » 2016-03-17, 16:49

Milda calmed down by drinking a bottle of remaining liquor she has kept for a day of glory. Never she has been this far from that glory :hmm:

Et pourtant c'est ça le préjugé, le grand, le bien établi, dur comme fer.

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Postby Ashkhan » 2016-03-17, 20:45

And yet there's the prejudice - the big one, the well-established one, the one as hard as iron. :?:

A la rêver immobile, elle m'a trouvé bien futile, mais quand bouger l'a faite tourner, ma réalité m'a pardonné.
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Re: Translation game - version

Postby france-eesti » 2016-03-17, 21:33

Téléphone !!! :whistle: :D

A la rêver immobile, elle m'a trouvé bien futile, mais quand bouger l'a faite tourner, ma réalité m'a pardonné.

Dreaming her unmovable, she found me quite shallow,
but when moving made her spin,
my reality forgave me

L'oisiveté est la mère de tous les vices, mais l'excès de travail est le père de toutes les soumissions.
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Postby Ashkhan » 2016-03-17, 21:46

france-eesti wrote:Téléphone !!! :whistle: :D

:mrgreen:

The idleness is the mother of all vices, but the excess of work is the father of all submissions.

Ah, l'archipel ! Mais c'est un endroit merveilleux ! Sauf quand il est affreux. Alors, il est merveilleusement affreux. Il mérite une visite, en tout cas. Éventuellement sans retour.
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Postby france-eesti » 2016-03-18, 12:29

Ah, the archipelago! My, that's a wonderful place! Except when it's loathsome. Then, it's wonderfully loathsome. It is worth a visit, anyway. Possibly one way only.

Une étude allemande montre que les personnes qui prennent de la vitamine C sont plus actives.
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Postby Dormouse559 » 2016-03-18, 18:14

A German study shows that people who take vitamin C are more active.

Cette légende me fut contée un soir d'hiver par un ami très cher.
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Postby uzferry » 2016-03-20, 15:00

I was told this legend by a very dear friend one winter evening

Rien au monde ne vaut qu’on se détourne de ce qu’on aime. (Camus)

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Postby Ashkhan » 2016-03-20, 15:32

Nothing in the world is worth turning away from what you love.

J'observais mon propre reflet dans le métal, me demandant si la dureté nouvelle de mon visage était le fruit de mon humeur.
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Postby Dormouse559 » 2016-03-20, 17:31

I watched my own reflection in the metal, wondering if the newfound hardness of my face was the result of my mood.

Il est terrible, le petit bruit d'un œuf dur cassé sur un comptoir d'étain.
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Postby france-eesti » 2016-03-20, 22:23

How terrible can that be, the noise of a boiled egg on a stain counter.

De quel côté du mur, les frontières vous rassurent ?
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Postby Ashkhan » 2016-03-20, 23:24

From which side of the wall do the boundaries reassure you?

Je n'éparpillerai pas vos chagrins dans une mére indifférente. Pour moi, vous n'êtes pas des cendres. Vous êtes tous des diamants.
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Postby france-eesti » 2016-03-21, 13:58

I won't scatter your sorrows in an indifferent mother (? mère?). As far as I'm concerned, you're not made of ashes. You're all made of diamonds.

Je revois son visage fermé, glacial. Je me souviens de ses silences prolongés, de ses petites phrases assassines.
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Postby Ashkhan » 2016-03-21, 16:42

(I meant to say 'mer', I don't know what happened. Must've been sleepy. :oops:)

I see his shut, frozen face again. I remember his prolonged silence, his killing little phrases.

La deuxième fraîcheur : voilà qui est absurde ! Il n’y a qu’une fraîcheur – la première – qui est en même temps la dernière.
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Re: Translation game - version

Postby Dormouse559 » 2016-03-23, 19:09

france-eesti wrote:stain counter.

[flag=]fr[/flag] étain = [flag=]en[/flag] tin

Ashkhan wrote:La deuxième fraîcheur : voilà qui est absurde ! Il n’y a qu’une fraîcheur – la première – qui est en même temps la dernière.
Cette citation est difficile à traduire d'une manière satisfaisante, au moins sans comprendre le texte original russe. "Second freshness" n'est pas une tournure de phrase idiomatique en anglais, et "first freshness" non plus. Peut-être que c'est la même en russe, mais je ne sais pas.

Second-rate freshness: How absurd! There is only one kind of freshness - the first - which is at the same time the last.

Dans ma rue y'a des gens qui se promènent. Je les entends chuchoter dans la nuit.
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Postby uzferry » 2016-03-23, 19:44

There are people wandering around in/on my street. I hear them whispering at night.

(mais quelqu'un peut-il me dire s'il est nécessaire de changer l'ordre de ces mots, parce que sinon, il ne semble pas que la phrase soit très correct en anglais...)

"Sois t'es l'un ou soit t'es l'autre"


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