# Could you repeat that in English please? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 30, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282 "2006-11-30T03:22:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/21 "2006-11-30T15:09:37Z")
The first 2 verses from the “Grinch” song: “You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch. You really are a heel. You’re as cuddly as a cactus, You’re as charming as an eel. Mr. Grinch. You’re a bad banana With a greasy black peel. You’re a monster, Mr. Grinch. Your heart’s an empty hole. Your brain is full of spiders, You’ve got garlic in your soul. Mr. Grinch. I wouldn’t touch you, with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole.” Lost in translation: " They are average, sig. Grinch. They are really a jump. They are like this cuddly, because a Kaktus, during, is to him bezaubernd, like sig. I gave Aal. de Grinch. it is a banana, this black lubrication of the skin is row damaged with one. They are to the monster, sig. Grinch. To esvazía of the sacador its internal part. Its brain is with the spiders, has full garlic in its internal part. Sig. Grinch. It would not touch n, with a tree of the trowel of the beginning of foot thirty nine." Priceless! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/22 "2006-11-30T16:11:34Z")
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible\_-_black, the cobble\_streets silent and the hunched, courter’s_-_and_-_rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloe\_black, slow, black, crow\_black, fishing\_boat_-\_bobbing sea. (underscores represent spaces inserted by me to facilitate translation) Becomes: It is motivation of the force, night without the moon in the small sea of the city, without asterisk and the bible - blackens, of that the ways of the paper of flexion of La Paz and, courter\_\_\_s - and - cojear invisibile of the low end of the wood of \_\_\_ of the rabbits to this black color of schlehe for the external part, slowly, the black color, black color of the crow, fishes of the boat - of pendillement. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/23 "2006-11-30T16:14:06Z")
Original: “Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.” Babelized: “The zone of the hour is all handhas that the relative who helps of the excess of the country () is good personal weather.” ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/24 "2006-11-30T17:14:04Z")
I couldn’t resist s’more Adams: “I seem to be having this tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle” Becomes: “has I this difficulty in the morning, as if you or this mode I do not have formatting the life span” And then, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book, and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate” becomes: “Sistemazione therefore full narcotic and the design exceeds that the manual interests to traveller for the galaxy or the vacancy much that is contained approximately to little.” And something as simple as “there is no such thing as a free lunch” becomes “The material is free similar lunch like, if, it is not.” ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/25 "2006-11-30T17:19:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Megatron: [surprised] Prime. > Optimus Prime: One shall stand, one shall fall. > Megatron: Why throw away your life so recklessly? > Optimus Prime: That’s a question you should ask yourself, Megatron. Well… Megatron: Verkollkommnung. Verkollkommnung I gave Optimus: , continued falls one. Megatron: Why separated distant startings to its duration very recklessly Verkollkommnung I gave Optimus: It is a question, that one that you would have that to being you who he you are strange, Megatron. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/26 "2006-11-30T19:10:35Z")
English to French to German to English: My air cushion vehicle is full from the Aalen Do you like to my piece go reflecting reflect? My hovercraft is full of eels. Would you like to go to my room bouncy bouncy? ---
**Author:** ![JohnM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@JohnM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnM)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/27 "2006-11-30T19:46:11Z")
Our father in the sky, santo is the relative name, his kingdom comes, his will occurs the form, in the track, like in the sky that our daily bread today gives for the pardon our they you them sins, when pardon those, those that satisfied with us sinned. We to seriously leave proteggiamo of the test and we who we filled. Love. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/28 "2006-11-30T22:14:22Z")
This one made it through the first 3 translations fairly recognizably, but the last 2 did it in. Four ends and are seven years our parents, that one who obtain in this a new continent of the nation, in where the freedom he is understood here and asked she who is dedicated the one that those all such men are manufactured. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/29 "2006-11-30T22:25:27Z")
From now on when we say the Nicene Creed in church I’m sayin’ this: Let us create that one the God, in the father, everything-efficient, in the generator of the sky and the track, of everything that is to say, it sights and invisibilmente. Let us create one getlteman, Christian of the Jesus, of whom only the son of the God, determined eternally of the father, God of the God, light of the light, that the applicable God of the applicable God, determined, not inside of a way he instructd, that it is with the father. All the things had been constituted of him. For us and our emergency one we saw underneath her we are of the sky: he was understood of vergine of Maria and constituted of the energy of the alcohol of Santo, decree that is equipped. In ours crucifié of the age of intéret under Pontius Pilatus; it underwent inoperative women and it was inserted. The third day to him still is magnified in agreement with Scriptures; it is assembled in the sky and one is based with the right hand of the father. The reputation entered the calm, ordered to judge the duration and the inoperative men and the relative kingdom do not have an extremity. Let us create the alcohol of Santo, getlteman, in the donor of the duration, that continues, beginning of the father and the son. With the father and the son they admire it and they improve. He spoke of the Prophete. Let us create catholic of the church of apostolic Santo and. We found a baptism for the decree of sins. Interior we observed the Auferstehung of the inoperative men and the ignited duration of the world, ordered coming. Love. I wonder if anybody would even pay attention. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TristramAiblins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@TristramAiblins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TristramAiblins)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/30 "2006-11-30T22:38:19Z")
“I love myself hard” becomes “Strong Esteem” That explains a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/31 "2006-11-30T22:39:20Z")
Nobody would think more that those during the years slipped of that this estêve of the world 19.jahrhunderts observed deeply and that pressed of man\_s, in most, of the one of relative one of Intelligenzen nevertheless is dead to them how much cleaned above; this, when the men if to completely on the almost therefore possibly pressed cluster in its diverse interest, that controlled and studied was to him, poichè a man with a microscope could control to the creatures of the momentâneas and in a drop of the water multiplied it. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/32 "2006-11-30T22:50:15Z")
The extremities exclude ways. * * * From the common, simplistic summary of _The Prince_, “The ends justify the means.” Clearly, the end loses something through the means. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/33 "2006-11-30T22:54:24Z")
And for your consideration, a passage that has been _improved_ in its clarity by it’s passage into German, then French, the English: Dead That is urgency which box eternal binds. And which did not die which can a lie eternal. And, given of Aeonen strange, even the death can die. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/34 "2006-11-30T22:54:25Z")
I just had to try. You can probably figure it out from the first line, but the rest of it is almost cosmic: does not have due to some or, because it is, – it is the question: \_ ’ this part outpost rises with this splendid cruel problem of the wealth of the good arrow, of that one it undergoes it with or the inner one, or other that one or and are tis estimate this fine of the handspike, the end to finish it in this carrying unexpected sea with this direction of the conversion these subjects? To be, or not to be–that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. ---
**Author:** ![Gleena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/35 "2006-12-01T01:44:24Z")
[QUOTE=Ludovic] And for your consideration, a passage that has been _improved_ in its clarity by it’s passage into German, then French, the English: Dead That is urgency which box eternal binds. And which did not die which can a lie eternal. And, given of Aeonen strange, even the death can die. [/QUOTE] But rises again, harder and stronger. I love Damphair! (Assuming this is from the George R. R. Martin books.) Wonder what I’d get with “Winter is Coming”? (Off to check.) Cheers, G ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/36 "2006-12-01T02:01:25Z")
From Monty Python: Original: “I will not buy this record, it is scratched.” Babelized: “I do not buy this sistemazione, he that I crossed same.” Original: “My hovercraft is full of eels.” Babelized: “My vehicle of the pneumatic shock absorber is full with Aalen.” Original: “Do you want to come back to my place? Bouncy Bouncy!” Babelized: “it appreciates to return my station from the work? Bouncy Bouncy!” ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/37 "2006-12-01T02:21:15Z")
“Our edge of the desert is is, if the medicine to begin to estimate the switches of the emergency almost to take to traverse in Barstow very fastly.” Hunter S. Thompson “The small process and of the personnel is considerable modification 1 for the humanity.” Neil Armstrong “The brothers of little for this we are lucky, with me and to the brothers it makes an average to work and he is ae"谁 that we are today therefore, because for vulgaeres this date with him is moderate, we who are and are we we connected ourselves with him we took.” --W. Shakespeare, Henry V (“We happy few, we band of brothers, for he who bleeds with me today shall be my brother, be he ever so vile, this day shall gentle him”) “This depends ignition, of that “is” he solidity; it is.” – W.J. Clinton “The eye woke up above! Zerstreuen ’ D the flight of the halting with the buttock, taken the patrol as of the night of the sky, the end to arrest itself in the first place to the internal part of the emitted paper, the strap of mezzeria that of the connection of light/write to the night is fixed, incorporates the title of the rotation of the Sultanes of Sunday.” - Omar Khayyam/Edward Fitzgerald ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/38 "2006-12-01T02:22:33Z")
I always use the [Gettysburg Address](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_address) for these kinds of things. Here’s what I got back from the Spanish re-translation: > [@](#): > > the address of Gettysburg > > four ends and is of seven years our parents, > this one who obtain in this a new continent of the nation, in where > the freedom he is understood here and asked she who is dedicated the > one that those all such men are manufactured. Hour we participated to > a great civil war and that we controlled, if this nation or any > nation, then understood and therefore dedicated, can use much stay. We > close come he the contact from a great ordered battle that takes part > of this war. We came, a part of this zone to dedicate like the place > of the rest of the obstruction so that it gave to his life this duro > here that could this nation living. It is completely U.S.ABLE and > U.S.ABLE that we would have that to do to this. But, in a greater > direction, we can be able to do consecrate\_we of dedicate\_we we did > not stop the power of hallow\_this not to rectify. The inoperative men, > duration and men to the face, that fought here, are they they > themselves dedicate the end to add it to him you or the distant > cancellation absentee moved in our low energy. The will of the world > that little famous propping remembers of one much time, that one that > we say here, but he cannot do never not forgotten them nevertheless > here. The duration, that one is dedicated here to something, is not > operation of the excess finished for us this, of which it had fought > here until noblement now advanced of so. We are more to something, of > that the way before which we are he we dedicated the great one to it > we loaded here remaining, \_, of that honest one of these inoperative > men, that, we took devozione, this one that the this cause is > magnified, so that devozione lasts completely of the measurement gave > for us, \_ this one decides here to fort that they do not die to these > inoperative men in useless \_, this nation, under the God, a new birth > of the freedom \_ has and that the data the government of people, > people, for people, do not give the track. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/39 "2006-12-01T02:28:22Z")
Because I watched Casablanca again last weekend, I entered a couple of quotes from the movie. The first came back as: “Of all the Wacholderbuschverbindung in all the cities, everything, between in mine.” Originally (in case it wasn’t obvious): “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” And the second as: “If the rammaricano. Possibly not today. Possibly not tomorrow. But soon and for the rest ours the past of the life.” Which was a little more recognizable from: “You’ll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But soon and for the rest of our lives.” Lastly: "Play he, SAM. The period of “As the game goes the By”. Which was, of course: "“Play it, Sam. Play “As Time Goes By”.” ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282/40 "2006-12-01T02:33:29Z")
Here are some more fun ones: **Original English Text** The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. **Translated to French** Le renard brun rapide saute par-dessus le chien paresseux. **Translated back to English** The fast brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. **Translated to German** Der schnelle braune Fuchs springt über den faulen Hund. **Translated back to English** The fast brown fox branches over the lazy dog. **Translated to Italian** La volpe marrone veloce si ramifica sopra il cane pigro. **Translated back to English** The ramifica vixen fast brown over the lazy dog. **Translated to Portuguese** O ramifica vixen o marrom rápido sobre o cão preguiçoso. **Translated back to English** The fast brown ramifies it vixen on the sluggish dog. **Translated to Spanish** El marrón rápido ramifies lo vixen en el perro tardo. **Translated back to English** The brown express ramifies vixen it in the dog I take. **Original English Text** Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. **Translated to French** Est maintenant l’heure pour tous les bons hommes de venir à l’aide de leur pays. **Translated back to English** Is now the hour for all the good men to come using their country. **Translated to German** Jetzt ist die Stunde, damit alle guten Männer mit ihrem Land kommen. **Translated back to English** Now is the hour, so that all good men with their country come. **Translated to Italian** Ora è l’ora, di modo che tutti gli buoni uomini con il loro paese vengono. **Translated back to English** Hour is the hour, of way that all the good men with their country come. **Translated to Portuguese** A hora é a hora, da maneira isso que todos os homens bons com seu país vêm. **Translated back to English** The hour is the hour, in the way this that all the good men with its country come. **Translated to Spanish** La hora es la hora, de la manera esto que vienen todos los buenos hombres con su país. **Translated back to English** The hour is the hour, of the way this that comes all the good men with their country. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-repeat-that-in-english-please/382282.md?page=3)