lift
flat
chipped
Not for everyone. “Scratched means French fried??”
Long ago, I watched a youtube video of a girl singing a song from an anime that I’m assuming she’d translated herself in French. A bit bold because she didn’t speak French. It was a nice try, but overall quite funny.
The part that really got me was a line about “a beautiful blooming spring” that she translated as a “un beau ressort qui fleurit”.
“Ressort” is the mecanical part that goes “boing”. The season is “printemps”.
This reminds me of a translation I saw for a spring themed song. Not the mechanical spring, the flowering one.
Japanese has three writing systems 漢字 which are essentially Chinese characters, the traditional kind rather than the simplified ones, ひらがな and カタカナ. They each complement one another and offer context, but sometimes you can also use different sets as a stylistic choice, which can deviate from general practise.
So there is this one line in the song
人ゴミを掻き分けては
Typically you’d write that first word with hiragana, 人ごみ, meaning crowd. ゴミ is a different word meaning rubbish, garbage, trash, litter, etc.
Whoever translated the song must’ve been decently new to the language, and did a valiant attempt, but they separated words out too much, and read 人ゴミ as two words, and 掻き分け again as two words.
- 人 person/people
- ゴミ garbage
- 掻き arm stroke (like in swimming)
- 分 part/portion
And thus translated it to something like “the people rummaged through the trash.”
- 人ごみ crowd
- 掻き分ける push aside/push through
So the actual meaning was roughly “I made my way through the crowd”
What do you think of this… https://www.atlanticsuperstore.ca/fr/puces-beurre-de-miel/p/21365446_EA
Honey butter chips, translated to… Puces à beurre de miel.
lol chips being translated tu puces is ok if you are talking about micro chips being micro puces, but fried chips are croustilles.
There was a story going around some time ago of someone who got a tattoo in Hebrew writing and asked for the word “butterfly” (🦋) but it instead read “butter fly” (🧈 🪰).
Good translation Governor!
Took me some time to figure this out as a non native speaker:
- lift, easy
- flat, that took a while
- Chipped, didn’t even know that idiom…
Long potato sticks are called chips in the UK and fre
edomnch fries in the US :)US chips are UK crisps, btw.
I don’t get the last one, the paint can be chips?
Chipped.
I’m chippin’ in
Johnny Silverhand approves
