Mechanical Snowman
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Same, and same.OMG Aero said:
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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
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Master Milk
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Do both. Have them rotate.Nishastra said:
People will probably double take thinking they saw it wrong the first time on page refreshes.
Myke Greywolf
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Myke Greywolf said:
So ...trixie's mom died?
Yeah the neighsayer part is the only thing I liked from her. How dare she change Rarity's hair and dizzy Rainbow dash.
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Is Wikipedia correct that there won't be a new episode this week?
Regulus Tera
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Needs to be ponybeat'd.Dai101 said:
John Dunbar
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oh christ. it's the ***** dude(s).
AceBandage
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It was so bad that the mods had to delete the posts?
Holy shit...
That's pretty rare.
Holy shit...
That's pretty rare.
Myke Greywolf
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Just finished translating episode 1.14, "Suited for Success", to portuguese. This is my favorite episode, but it was hell to translate, and it took me almost 6 hours to do it. Because of that friggin' awesome song, of course.
I'm sure translating this kind of thing is easy as pie when you don't give a shit about the source material. It's definitely hell if you insist on maintaining the meanings for all verses, all rhymes in their respective places, and still make it singable in the target language.
I'm sure translating this kind of thing is easy as pie when you don't give a shit about the source material. It's definitely hell if you insist on maintaining the meanings for all verses, all rhymes in their respective places, and still make it singable in the target language.
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Myke Greywolf
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Mechanical Snowman said:
Applejack's country girl slang is a little tricky, but I usually manage to find an equivalent portuguese expression whenever she uses it. Pinkie Pie's sugary flourishes are tricky too, but I can always find a way through using diminutives and childish expressions ("forgetty forgetterson"->"esquecidinha da silva")
Sometimes it is impossible to translate word for word, so you have to use each idiom as a translating unit, or just go for meaning.
Puns and rhymes are a completely different problem, and very hard to translate. I can ignore them if they're not too important, but if they're integral to the dialogue, I just think really hard of what aspects are most important to transmit to the audience in that particular phrase: the meaning of each word, the condensed meaning of the whole expression, the sonority, the flow of the dialogue, among others. After that, I focus on the particular aspect which I think to be most important, and translate trying to preserve it more than the others.
Here, the whole meaning of the expression as a party meant to celebrate the appearance of a cutie mark was more important than the wordplay on "quinceañera", therefore:
"cute-ceañera" -> "festa da marca"
I spent about 30 minutes thinking of how to translate the following lines:
Spike: You know, Pinkie, these two ponies have a bit of a grudge match they're trying to settle. Trying to prove who's the most athletic.
Pinkie Pie: Yes, and "grudge" rhymes with "fudge".
Spike: Yes it... does. What?
Pinkie Pie: And I like fudge. But if I eat too much fudge I get a pudge and then I can't budge.
Spike: So... no fudge?
Pinkie Pie: Oh, no thanks. I had a big breakfast.
I ended up going with this, because I thought that the most important thing here was to make the right words rhyme, even if they don't have the same meaning:
Spike: Sabes, Pinkie, estas duas póneis têm um duelo que querem resolver, para provar quem é a mais atlética.
Pinkie: Sim, e duelo rima com caramelo.
Spike: Pois... rima. O quê?
Pinkie: E eu gosto de caramelo. Mas quem come muito caramelo fica amarelo e tem um problema belo.
Spike: Então... nada de caramelo?
Pinkie: Não, obrigada. Comi bem ao pequeno almoço.
It doesn't have exactly the same meaning, but I thought in this case it was more important to preserve the rhyme, because that's what this exchange is all about! Pinkie's second line translates literally back to:
Pinkie: And I like caramel. But if you eat too much caramel, you become yellow and have a beautiful (figurative; It actually means "big" in this context) problem.
Not the same meaning, but the same spirit, I think.
If worse comes to worst, there are always the dreaded translation notes ("keikaku means plan")
I'm currently missing sleep because of the damn "horse drawn horse drawn carriages" pun.
Myke Greywolf
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No, "to drag" is translated to portuguese as "arrastar". We use other variations of that particular latin word the same way as english does ("tractor", "to treat"->"tratar"). Other than that, there's just the other meaning of "tratar": "to deal with"->"tratar de".ivedoneyourmom said:
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