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Hahahaha this has to be a gimmick account right?game of bones 1 star review posted:This is the worst thing on the planet and everything about it is terrible. also reviewed: Suckle Me Daddy: The Beginning, a roomba, a zelda sword, an exercise bike and Kingdoms of Amalur rawdog pozfail fucked around with this message at 10:31 on Jul 12, 2013 |
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Yep, I'm aware of the project and its nature. To be very specific about my qualifications for the translation, I'm a native Romanian speaker that lives within 200km of the area and spent ~10 summer vacations within 50km of the area. Spoken Romanian will vary much more based on social class than it varies on area, (and the higher you go classwise, the less it varies) and I can easily do upper class Romanian and urban middle class for major cities in all of Romania and minor ones in Moldavia (the area you describe is mostly Moldavia - Bilbor is on the Transylvania side of the Moldavia/Transylvania divide and the rest is straightforward northern mountain Moldavia, especially Gura Sarului). Rural middle class is urban middle class with more regionalisms, and while I can't do lower class (urban or rural) naturally, there's plenty Romanian-language documentation for peasant Romanian in various areas, so I should be able to put a translation together, and I've heard enough of it so as to lay it on with the proper amount of thickness. Anyway, the differences between what you call different Romanian dialects (in Romanian, the term refers to Megleno-Romanian and stuff like that - the Romanian spoken on the territory of Romania is a single dialect - Daco-Romanian) are much, much smaller than the differences you'd hear between different US English dialects - you won't have the grammatical variation you find between NY and the Ozarks, let alone the Ozarks and AAVE, for example. If you find a native speaker closer to the area and social class of the characters (or one that has a degree on the subject) they'd do a better job, but I'll do a much better job than Google Translate, and one that few to none non-native speaker would be able to find mistakes in. Edit: Written Romanian is also closer to standard than spoken Romanian, so you'll have far less variation since you're not trying to do spoken language. You could, presumably, try to pull a Mark Twain and phonetically reproduce spoken Romanian but I heavily recommend against it - very, very easy to get wrong even by native speakers. I've dropped you a mail - I'm often available on gchat. stille fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Jul 12, 2013 |
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Jul 12, 2013 11:48
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Geez, where were you when I was writing a screenplay in college about Bram Stoker getting hosed up on LSD and beating up Romanian landowners in his delusions? How do you say "oh god, my leg, my leg! Why can't I feel my leg?" in Romanian? For, you know, research.
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Jul 12, 2013 14:11
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Jesus, your English is impeccable (I'm not being condescending). I spend time on another forum with a lot of international members and even those with a high level of English proficiency are easy to pick out as non-native speakers, but I never would have guessed that you aren't. What is your background with learning the language, if you don't mind me asking?
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Jul 12, 2013 14:33
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Huh, this has taken an interesting turn. I'm gonna need a bit more than 24 hours to get that chapter done.
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Jul 12, 2013 14:44
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Chinston Wurchill posted:This is apparently a representation of what he imagines: I actually dig that one a hell of a lot more. Junkenstein posted:Maybe he's starting to regret the whole thing now that there's a distinct possibility someone else is going to finish his magnus opus ftfy mkay0 posted:I think the GURM clearly is starting to get nervous about getting lapped by the show. Why write a blog post bitching for no reason? The show is 99 percent faithful to the books and he bitched about the changes. Where the gently caress did you pull THAT percentage from? Fog Tripper fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Jul 12, 2013 |
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Jul 12, 2013 15:26
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Blade_of_tyshalle: A word-for-word(ish) translation would be "Dumnezeule, piciorul, piciorul! De ce nu-mi mai simt piciorul?" but "Dumnezeule" is a mouthful so they'd probably use "Doamne" (archaic "oh lord") instead, supposing they're Christian enough to think religion in those circumstances, or if they're not, some otherwise-meaningless interjection of pain/surprise/shock like "Auleu". This might also go the other way and have the obsessively-repeated bit be the oh god one rather than the leg one, which wouldn't correlate with faith as strongly as the "oh lord" bit. You'd then get "Doamne Dumnezeule, piciorul! De ce nu-mi mai simt piciorul?". SammyWhereAreYou: Thanks! I've studied English in school, but there were also lots of English-language books, movies and forums in my life, + a MUD I played obsessively as a teen. My English level really isn't that unusual for a Romanian 20-something - I wonder if the international members you were speaking about didn't come from countries that dub movies/tv instead of subbing it, since exposure to the language as a kid does seem to make a huge difference.
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Jul 12, 2013 15:58
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Fog Tripper posted:I actually dig that one a hell of a lot more. I agree, it really sells the magnitude of Aegon's Conquest a lot more than the show throne. Of course, my copy of AGOT has a really lovely looking drawing of the Iron Throne in the front. Did Gurm ever complain about that one?
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Jul 12, 2013 16:40
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GRRM forgot to mention the Iron Throne was 700 feet tall, closer to 800 at some points.
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Jul 12, 2013 17:22
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Mistaken For Bacon posted:I agree, it really sells the magnitude of Aegon's Conquest a lot more than the show throne. A lot of things about the show scale-wise were really neutered from the books. One prime example is the Hands Tourney. Ned and the small council were all abloobloo about the gigantic costs involved, and what the TV showed was akin to the sidelines at a pickup football game. Most city scenes look like back alleys, banquet halls appear to be servant dining areas. Really, most everything about the show is underwhelming to me.
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Jul 12, 2013 17:52
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p.crestmont posted:GRRM forgot to mention the Iron Throne was 700 feet tall, closer to 800 at some points. Ok this was great.
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Jul 12, 2013 18:00
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Fog Tripper posted:A lot of things about the show scale-wise were really neutered from the books. You can't waste money on grand set pieces when you have nudity fees and blood packs to pay for.
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Jul 12, 2013 19:52
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Hell the show can't even afford fuckin' horses, they aren't spending a zillion dollars on a huge chair.
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Jul 12, 2013 21:41
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On the topic of scale, I just re-read the battles at the Wall and I wonder how they will be shown on TV. Tormund's raiding party has already been scaled down to the point that they don't represent anything resembling a threat to Castle Black, though I imagine they'll hand-wave in some reinforcements as Jon and the wolves already killed most of them. As if the battle with the raiders wasn't big enough, there's the main assault on the Wall and Stannis' arrival to fit into next season as well. Maybe they'll just show the perspective from the top of the wall and have Jon give running commentary about what's happening to the audience.
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Jul 12, 2013 23:14
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Chinston Wurchill posted:have Jon give running commentary about what's happening to the audience. You know nothing, Jon Madden.
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Jul 12, 2013 23:23
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:You know nothing, Jon Madden. Here comes Eye Greet up the middle. Look at her splitting the defen ... BOOM! Wow! That hit came out of nowhere. That DB gets an aurochs leg. Fellas, show that aurochs again for the people at home, wouldja? Good thing we're up in the booth, right, Al? I could use some of that right now. Stretcher coming out for Eee Grit. This doesn't look good.
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Jul 12, 2013 23:34
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Vigilance posted:Hell the show can't even afford fuckin' horses Are horses cheaper than chairs in your world?
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Jul 12, 2013 23:44
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They're cheaper than a chair, made of swords, that's three storeys tall.
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Jul 13, 2013 00:52
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:They're cheaper than a chair, made of swords, that's three storeys tall. If only there was a substance that one might make a chair that looks like swords that is not the actual substance swords are made from. How much do you imagine a horse goes for? A puzzler. In any event it is what it is, but I would have been cool with the 3 story one.  Of course that would entail a throne room bigger than the average den. Fog Tripper fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Jul 13, 2013 |
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Jul 13, 2013 01:07
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Fog Tripper posted:If only there was a substance that one might make a chair that looks like swords that is not the actual substance swords are made from. How much do you imagine a horse goes for? You don't have to buy the horse. You can just hire them from the horse place. Anyway they do have horses Also a three storey chair would have made blocking out the scenes really hard, and looked really loving dumb.
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Jul 13, 2013 01:26
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They won't show the battle at the wall. Jon will get bopped on the head and wake up to dead Ygritte.
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Jul 13, 2013 01:30
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At least wight-Ros will be there to tell him what happened while pegging Edd.
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Jul 13, 2013 01:33
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Fatkraken posted:You don't have to buy the horse. You can just hire them from the horse place. Anyway they do have horses It's Ireland, there are horses just standing around in ditches. Haven't any of you seen Into the West?
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Jul 13, 2013 03:08
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Urdnot Fire posted:At least wight-Ros will be there to tell him what happened while pegging Edd. -No no no no, the other Ros, Ros the teacher. -Oh you mean Black Ros -Why is she "Black Ros"? -Not in a bad way it's just to tell them apart because she's black
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Jul 13, 2013 03:09
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I bet Ros was the one that didn't want to show her tits any more and that's why
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Jul 13, 2013 03:18
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The viler part of that is that GRRM previously mentioned wanting to write Ros into the books after being "impressed" by the actress' performance. That's also why she was in more than just the first episode.
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Jul 13, 2013 03:25
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Vigilance posted:I bet Ros was the one that didn't want to show her tits any more and that's why She was a sympathetic (read: often naked) window into Littlefinger's world and now they don't need her anymore as Sansa's moving in. The tits thing might apply too, I guess. And they got to make Joffrey seem like more of a dick in the bargain - it actually worked out pretty well, arse-play excepted.
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Jul 13, 2013 03:35
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Holy Calamity! posted:Hahahaha this has to be a gimmick account right? This review made my day. It made my week!
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Jul 13, 2013 05:59
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syscall girl posted:-No no no no, the other Ros, Ros the teacher. Snowy Waters, I have heard some dumb theories in my time, but this is, without a doubt...!
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Jul 13, 2013 07:24
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Good news, I fired off the translatable parts of my first chapter and I'm going to wrap up the Anglo bits tonight. Norris, any chance you and the Q could record another chapter? The Brendan that I didn't write seems like it would need the least production. Can somebody else give a progress update? Also, the forums are freaking out on me right now.
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Jul 13, 2013 11:40
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Y'all best be finishing Game of Bones 2 or Clash of Cocks or whatever it's called. My dad apparently started watching the show so I want to show him how I contributed to its content via reading and chewing in a microphone. BTW, haven't been posting in this thread a lot because of school and work poo poo. Hope y'all are discussing the deep character of Gerold Dayne and whatnot.
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Jul 13, 2013 18:13
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Urdnot Fire posted:At least wight-Ros will be there to tell him what happened while pegging Edd. If this isn't the preferred method for the exposition info dump, then I just don't know anymore
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Jul 13, 2013 18:49
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Arbite posted:Good news, I fired off the translatable parts of my first chapter and I'm going to wrap up the Anglo bits tonight. I don't know, I haven't talked to IRQ in what feels like forever! I am a bad friend.
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Jul 15, 2013 05:14
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 Via: wtffanfiction.com/
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Jul 15, 2013 19:39
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Chinston Wurchill posted:
Isn't that stuff usually worst than the source material?
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Jul 15, 2013 20:24
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Chinston Wurchill posted:
gently caress, did someone quote our book?
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Jul 15, 2013 20:29
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The only person I've ever heard use "threw up" as a euphemism for ejaculating was this oxy addict from North Carolina who had a hernia into his nuts which kind of makes it oddly appropriate. Still gross as hell. Needs to be incorporated into Clash of Cocks.
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Jul 15, 2013 21:18
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Strayed too far from the source material for me: Sansa doesn't have a stomach, she has a tummy.
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Jul 15, 2013 21:21
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AtAt-de-fay posted:Strayed too far from the source material for me: Sansa doesn't have a stomach, she has a tummy. my immersion
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My tummyrsion!
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