Can someone help me with a Japanese translation?

[mouthbreather]

Can someone help me with a Japanese translation on these song titles?

http://www.quruli.net/discs/team.html
I had to install the Japanese download for IE to display it properly, but I’m assuming that if you are able to translate for me then you will likely have already done the same.

Thanks in advance!

[jackelope]

My Japanese is pretty limited; I can read a couple of these (the simple ones).

2. “Wonderful girl”? Wander forgell? Something like that. “Wonderful girl” is my best guess.

3. [Something] of curry

4. Train rock festival. Or Train lock festival. More likely the former.

5. [Something] game

6. River.

Sorry I can’t help more.

[Bad_News_Baboon]

something about a big goombah.

[system]

2. Wonderful Girl
3. Loveless World (“Ainaki Sekai”)
4. The Curry Song (“Karee no Uta”)
5. Eternity (“Eien”)
6. Train Rock Festival.
7. Roses (“Bara no Hana”)
8. Maze Game (“Meiro Game”)
9. River

I’m pretty sure “ainaki” means “loveless,” since “naki” is a suffix that can mean “without,” as in “ienaki” (“homeless”).

[system]

I was wrong!

The invaluable Jeffrey’s Japanese/English Dictionary Server says “wandaafoogeru” is a “migratory bird (de: Wandervogel).”

[Astroboy14]

MineFujiko’s post is confirmed by Astrogirl (who’s Japanese is so-so…), with the addition that many of the song titles are actually English words written out in Japanese. For example, #8. reads something like “Turain Rok Pestiburu” which is Japlish for “Train Rock Festival.”

[Astroboy14]

*Originally posted by MineFujiko *
**I was wrong!

The invaluable Jeffrey’s Japanese/English Dictionary Server says “wandaafoogeru” is a “migratory bird (de: Wandervogel).” **

Astrogirl is pretty sure you were right the first time… she says that it looks very much like English words written in Japanese…

[system]

*Originally posted by Astroboy14 *
**Astrogirl is pretty sure you were right the first time… she says that it looks very much like English words written in Japanese… **

Hi, Astroboy and Astrogirl. As much as I’d like to have been right the first time, I am now 100% certain I’m not. I figure it’d be better to own up publicly on a board dedicated to fighting ignorance, lest I find myself Pitted

If it really was supposed to be “Wonderful Girl,” it would probably be written as “wandafuru gyaru” or “wandafuru gaaru,” which are the standard borrowings I see in printed Japanese. My old old Kenkyusha pocket dictionary actually has an entry for “wandaafoogeru,” written in kana exactly as it appears on that website, and it is definitely associated with the German word “wandervogel.” However, this dictionary gives the Japanese meaning as “hiking club.” I guess the definition has mutated over time (my dictionary is around 50 years old).

[jackelope]

*Originally posted by MineFujiko *
If it really was supposed to be “Wonderful Girl,” it would probably be written as “wandafuru gyaru” or “wandafuru gaaru,” which are the standard borrowings I see in printed Japanese.

Nitpick: “Wonderful” would be transliterated as “wandaafuru,” or more likely “uondaafuru.” (With elongated a in second syllable to approximate the “er” sound.)

I better stop there, though; anyone calling herself MineFujiko is likely to know a lot more about this than I do. I’m just a gaijin who spent a few years in Tokyo about 15 years ago.

[system]

*Originally posted by jackelope *
Nitpick: “Wonderful” would be transliterated as “wandaafuru,” or more likely “uondaafuru.” (With elongated a in second syllable to approximate the “er” sound.)

jackalope is right, of course, about the extended “a” sound in “wandaafuru.” I was too lazy to write it out (but not “gaaru,” go figure). If “uondaa” used to be the popular borrowing, it has definitely been superceded by “wandaa” (Google the two and you’ll see).

[mouthbreather]

Thanks very much, jackelope, MineFujiko, Astroboy and Astrogirl.