Comments on: Lost in translation, oops

By: Sonja

Sonja — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:12:25 +0000

Thank you Sigvaldi. I couldn’t remember the line 100% so I just skipped it. See what happens when you are in a hurry All I remembered was the english translation back to Icel. Hún var gefin Njáli ung, and it didn’t quite fit.

By: alda

alda — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:28:04 +0000

Ah. I get it now. Thanks.

By: Sigvaldi Eggertsson

Sigvaldi Eggertsson — Sun, 11 May 2008 12:21:07 +0000

Alda, to continue what Sonja wrote above, you probably recall the line from Njála where Bergþóra says “Ung var ég gefin Njáli”
Then try to give a direct translation of that in English.

By: alda

alda — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:22:44 +0000

Sonja – who married Neil Young? Or was it Njál Young …?

Rozanne – very weird indeed. And lol at your correction!

By: Rozanne

Rozanne — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:23:40 +0000

Correction: I don’t know what made him pop into my head.

By: Rozanne

Rozanne — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:22:08 +0000

How weird to see John Fogerty featured in your blog post. Just a few days ago, I was wondering what ever happened to him. I remembered that he’d embarked on a solo career back in the ’80s, but didn’t know if he’d then slipped into oblivion. I don’t know what made me pop into my head. Maybe I heard an old CCR song while I was in the grocery store or something.

Anyway, it sounds like he’s a bit of a clean freak. I hope he isn’t going the route of Howard Hughes.

And, yeah, most certainly his request was for Ivory soap.

By: Sonja

Sonja — Sat, 10 May 2008 13:42:32 +0000

Ha ha ha. Fílabeinshvít sápa. Ha ha ha Þetta er algjör snilld.

Mér datt í hug í þessu samhengi ‘þýðingin´ á Njálu, þar sem Neil Young var ein söguhetjan. She married Neil Young.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:05:27 +0000

Ohh, maltranslations…

Our trade, it should have more clout. Those in our trade who KNOW THEIR FRIGGING LANGUAGES, I mean.

Could you write more articles about those?

They get wars going, they are EVERYWHERE, and unless one knows the origin language, they are rather hard to detect. Did you know that even Shakespeare in German is riddled with bogus translations of easy stuff? (“Du sollst die Akte selber sehn.”)

Imaginiere Grüße in Kursivschrift. Mein Netzteil hat strenge Ausgabemacht!

By: alda

alda — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:07:09 +0000

Dumdad – um, actually, I don’t think it is.

REC – interesting!

JD – thanks for the link. I’ve spent far too much time browsing when I should be doing other things …

andrea – phew, that’s a relief!

By: andrea

andrea — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:29:40 +0000

From his list of demands I’m guessing that refusing to wash himself is not an option, Ivory or not.