Teléfono políglota XII (Polyglottal Telephone XII)

[communistplot]

If that were the problem I would say so, it's not a matter of my ability, it's lack of motivation and school work that're killing me.

[makvas]

Would hito do English -> Japanese again possibly?

[Bob Johnson]

I am available but... I thought we weren't supposed to cross the streams.

[Risla]

Hm, it seems like you got it late enough in the other team that you wouldn't have any idea what the original actually was, so you'd be less likely to let the previous translation you did affect this one too much. I'd still rather get someone completely different, but it'd probably be fine.

Also I am disappoint at moko. >:|

[Qwynegold]

Seriously? It takes only like 20 minutes to translate. Oh well. Anyhow, I won't be able to do my translation until Monday, because I'm not at home right now.

[finlay]

This is the point where I sort of wish that I knew japanese beyond わたしはフィンレイです and ゆうびんきょくどこですか, so I could help. Mind you, I also participated in the other team, if it comes to that, and when I got it it was pretty comprehensible. Anyway, I've been getting instruction in the language but my teacher's not that good and we're stuck trying to remember some really basic adjectives. I feel sure I could pick it up faster by other means, but that might only be if I was in the country.....

[Risla]

Since it's going to Qwynegold after, it can be any of the languages of Swedish, Finnish or Japanese. If that helps.

[Ser]

The most obvious emergency honorary guest to invite here is Yiuel Denjidzirc I believe, to translate it onto Japanese. I've already sent him a PM about it.

[Yiuel Raumbesrairc]

やります！

(I'll do it.)

[treskro]

yay

[Yiuel Raumbesrairc]

完成しました。

[Risla]

Yay, thank you very much.

[Qwynegold]

Okay, it's done. Now I know that my earlier determination not to translate out of Japanese was correct. Oh well, I hope the gist of the text is still somewhat similar...

[Yiuel Raumbesrairc]

Okay, it's done. Now I know that my earlier determination not to translate out of Japanese was correct. Oh well, I hope the gist of the text is still somewhat similar...

Also, you had me translating into Japanese. And I purposely had fun using keigo

[Astraios]

So let's see it already!

[Ser]

WOO!! WE'RE DONE!!

RESULTS IN THEIR WAY OF BEING POSTED NOW

[Ser]

RESULTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE!

http://www.kneequickie.com/kq/Polyglott ... Dglota_XII

My favorite parts:

• The various transformations of the elf.
• How looking like a wildcat ended up being bad in team A, but good in team B.

[faiuwle]

You've messed it up a bit - I translated into Spanish, not into English (and I'm pretty sure I sent the right translations on...)

[Ser]

Thanks for noticing it!

[Astraios]

Ha! This turned out very funny.

I think my favourite bit is where "He wanted to know what the goblin looked like without clothes" turns into "The naked goblin knew what he wanted the weather to look like". xD I'm still laughing, five minutes after reading it.


EDIT: For anyone who's interested: as a single phrase, oówaŋyaŋg tókheča means semi-literally how is N to look at. Taken as separate words, oówaŋyaŋg means for looking at, and tókheča can mean what is the weather, but normally just means of what character is N. It's a completely unforgivable mistake, because the "weather" sense is only used with the word aŋpétu day.

[treskro]

And the lack of pubic hair was changed to a lack ribsides hair.

This change was actually from pubic hair into a hairless thigh, but then I moved thigh in front of ribs, so yeah..

[Bob Johnson]

2.44 miles

That <里> is <sato> "town" not <ri> "li (unit of distance)"...

[Lyhoko Leaci]

It was originally an elf?

And it apparently isn't familiar at all. The "Read the book" made me think it was one of those commercials that promotes reading that I've heard on the radio before. Also weird that B's ending text doesn't look at all familiar to what I translated, even though I was the 3rd to last in the list.

cedh audhmanh translated it into English? Very Germany English, at that.

[Ser]

It was originally an elf?

Who would have believed!

Also weird that B's ending text doesn't look at all familiar to what I translated, even though I was the 3rd to last in the list.

I'm pretty sure Yiuel did something funky here with his translation beyond being overformal, but I just can't see it (since I know zero Jappy).

cedh audhmanh translated it into English? Very Germany English, at that.

See? And then they say German doesn't look like it's related to English!

*checks for any other continuity mistakes*

[faiuwle]

Looking back at it, I remember that my first intuition was that "qui scivit se tempus videre" meant "who knew that he saw time" (looks like there was actually a voluit missing from the end of that), but then I thought, that doesn't make any sense, and there's this weird infinitive thing and this reflexive pronoun, and maybe this is some complicated construction that I just don't remember anymore, and then I spent a long time reading Latin grammars and twisting it around and trying to make it mean something that made sense until finally giving up. Amusingly enough, my first guess was actually more accurate...

(Also, I seriously considered translating "nullae comae in pecore cruribusve erant" literally as "there was no hair on his cattle or his legs", but ultimately decided that was unnecessary.)