Comments on Stephen Parrish: 'Twas Brillig, and the Slithy Toves

Awesome post.Reminds me of when we were living in ...

2009-02-01T03:19:00.000+01:00

Awesome post.

Reminds me of when we were living in Ireland and I had to communicate with a ton of innkeepers throughout Europe to get lodging for our big summer trip. Except I didn't speak any other language except a tiny bit of French. I did the translate thing. Too, too funny.

In Jane's English:It is a truth universally acknow...

2008-12-08T22:41:00.000+01:00

In Jane's English:
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

In Russian:
Это - правда, универсально признанная, что единственный человек во владении удачей, должен нуждаться в жене.

From Russian to English:
It is the truth universally recognized, that the unique person in possession of success, should require the wife.

In Italian:
Si tratta di una verità universalmente riconosciuto, che un unico uomo in possesso di una buona fortuna, devono essere in mancanza di una moglie.

And back:
This is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in the absence of a wife.

Hmm. I think we lost something there.

OK, one last one. From Jane's English to Russian to Italian and back to English:
This is - the truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of good fortune must be in need of his wife.

I'm sure if I threw in a few more languages before coming back to English, it could get very interesting.

I love monkey speak. I can't speak it myself too f...

2008-12-05T16:53:00.000+01:00

I love monkey speak. I can't speak it myself too fluently, but God-damn if it doesn't give me a boner to hear it, read it and....and...yeah. You know what I mean.

Engligh:I saw it with perfect distinctness - all a...

2008-12-04T22:08:00.000+01:00

Engligh:
I saw it with perfect distinctness - all a dull blue, with a hideous veil over it that chilled the very marrow from my bones...
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German:
I saw it more rüber with to perfect everything distinctness - a blunt blue, with a terrible veil it, which cooled Marks in my bones...
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The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe

An Iranian friend once asked me to cut her some sl...

2008-12-04T16:25:00.000+01:00

An Iranian friend once asked me to cut her some slacks.

A Filapina nurse I know once complained about a doctor raising his cane.

It cracks me up when they mangle slang like that.

Love the translation thingy. Reminds me of a famou...

2008-12-04T15:25:00.000+01:00

Love the translation thingy. Reminds me of a famous attorney from China I once heard "speak" at a seminar. Favorite mangling? "The rule of finger for tort law..."

Nice place here. But I didn't get a Joyce-ish feeling. More like Faulkner after a long walk in the woods. :)

It delights me endlessly that you wetted fellows t...

2008-12-04T08:54:00.000+01:00

It delights me endlessly that you wetted fellows this blog post. That more that we speak speaks in apes, survives that become more literary that we, that more long our work last end the run of the time.

Thank you, Stephen, for starting the new genre of ...

2008-12-04T02:46:00.000+01:00

Thank you, Stephen, for starting the new genre of "Monkey Speak".

This has got to be one of my favorite blog posts e...

2008-12-04T02:19:00.000+01:00

This has got to be one of my favorite blog posts ever. So good, Stephen! :)

Ulysses is an odyssey I will always run away from (my love for Paris and Slyvia Beach aside).

In fact, I'd rather eat Aufschlitzenhandgelenke.

ROFL! I must do this to my novel. :)

2008-12-04T01:27:00.000+01:00

ROFL! I must do this to my novel. :)

Thank you for the translation, it is very tasty.

2008-12-03T21:51:00.000+01:00

Thank you for the translation, it is very tasty.

Hmm... I wonder what "A Tale of Two Cities" would ...

2008-12-03T19:12:00.000+01:00

Hmm... I wonder what "A Tale of Two Cities" would read like or "Hamlet"?

What fun!

2008-12-03T17:59:00.000+01:00

What fun!

Whoa! You just put a new twist in twisted.

2008-12-03T16:06:00.000+01:00

Whoa! You just put a new twist in twisted.

Ah, I can tell that NaMoWriMo has ended, freeing y...

2008-12-03T14:04:00.000+01:00

Ah, I can tell that NaMoWriMo has ended, freeing your brain up for greater pleasures.

Funny post :-)

Actually Jude, the two translation's that are sort...

2008-12-03T13:50:00.000+01:00

Actually Jude, the two translation's that are sort of classic were the Chevy Nova in Mexico, because No Va translates to "No Go."

And the Rolls Royce Silver Mist in Germany, because Mist is a mild obscenity meaning "shit."

There's a Coke one that translated in Chinese to something like "it brings your ancestors back from the dead."

Monkey Speak. I love it. Now I'm going to go translate my last manuscript into Swahili and re-translate it, then submit it somewhere.

LOL! Now I know the secret to writing avant-garde ...

2008-12-03T13:37:00.000+01:00

LOL! Now I know the secret to writing avant-garde poetry.

Sometimes even real translators biff the job. I remember years ago hearing about some of our automobile exports reaching their foreign destinations inscribed with what translated as Corpse by Fisher. I'm sure that was a hoot to the Frenchmen or whoever it was reading it.