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Offline Jimmy

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Need help for a language
« on: February 16, 2009, 05:17:05 AM »
Any idea what is the language of those burned subtitles? I have no idea, but this is certainly an european language.


Thanks

P.S : I hope that nothing offensive is written :laugh:

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Re: Need help for a language
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2009, 05:49:11 AM »
As it looks like a bizarre mix of English and German: Dutch

From what I can see it either means:

It all began with the little sled.

OR

It all began with the little xxxx (replace the "e" on screen with an "u")

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Re: Need help for a language
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2009, 06:02:24 AM »
It all began with the little xxxx (replace the "e" on screen with an "u")
This one is certainly the correct traduction with the movie context. This is one of the language that I was thinking with some other country german language variations (Belgium, Austria or Switzerland).

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Re: Need help for a language
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2009, 01:44:55 PM »
This one is certainly the correct traduction with the movie context.
Since it was you asking I assumed that much :P I had just wanted to provide that one other possibility, which would have been closer to German...)

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Re: Need help for a language
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2009, 06:01:47 PM »
This is one of the language that I was thinking with some other country german language variations (Belgium, Austria or Switzerland).
Just a little clarification:
Belgium doesn't have a official lanuage of its own. Its three official languages are Dutch, French, and German.
The Austrian language is just a dialect(s) of German (similar to the Bavarian dialect). Their written language is the same as in Germany. The same with Switzerland (one part of Switzerland, the other part speaks French).
Written languages which come to my mind which could be confused with the German written language by non-Germans: Dutch and Scandinavian languages (Danish, Swedish and Norwegian).



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Re: Need help for a language
« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2009, 07:22:30 PM »
Since it was you asking I assumed that much :P
:-[ :hysterical:
Written languages which come to my mind which could be confused with the German written language by non-Germans: Dutch and Scandinavian languages (Danish, Swedish and Norwegian).
We learn something new everyday, I didn't know that, except for the Dutch, those languages share the same roots than the German.

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Re: Need help for a language
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2009, 08:39:16 PM »
Written languages which come to my mind which could be confused with the German written language by non-Germans: Dutch and Scandinavian languages (Danish, Swedish and Norwegian).
We learn something new everyday, I didn't know that, except for the Dutch, those languages share the same roots than the German.
Maybe I exaggerated a little. With the additional strange characters the scandinavian languages have, they probably aren't as easily confused with German as Dutch is. I confused it with the spoken language. There you will hear a lot of words familiar to German ears. This from my experience of hearing it in movies like Låt den rätte komma in (Norwegian), Vikaren (Danish) and Fucking Åmål (Swedish).



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Re: Need help for a language
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2009, 11:38:51 PM »
Jimmy,  "traduction" doesn't exist in english, it's "translation" ;)

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Re: Need help for a language
« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2009, 05:54:55 AM »
The Austrian language is just a dialect(s) of German (similar to the Bavarian dialect). Their written language is the same as in Germany. The same with Switzerland (one part of Switzerland, the other part speaks French).
IIRC Switzlerland also has three languages, Italian being the third...?

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Re: Need help for a language
« Reply #9 on: February 17, 2009, 12:42:14 PM »
Belgium doesn't have a official lanuage of its own. Its three official languages are Dutch, French, and German.

What about Flemish?

Otherwise you couldn't have the old joke of:
Q. What's a Belgin kiss?

A. It's te same as a French kiss but with more "flem"
(I know that phelgm isn't spelt as I did above)

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Re: Need help for a language
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Re: Need help for a language
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2009, 08:49:39 PM »
I think that the text is in German, I've tried to translated it with Google but many words aren't translate. So I need help again for an english translation. The text is the synopsis of an adult movie, so this is probably unsafe for work (if a text without image can be shocking...) that's why I've hided it behind a spoiler tag.

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Thanks

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Re: Need help for a language
« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2009, 09:41:13 PM »
Only Jimmy finds these  :laugh:

My crude translation:

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Re: Need help for a language
« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2009, 09:44:17 PM »
I just wanted to begin translating. But luckily Tom did it for me. :clap:
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Re: Need help for a language
« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2009, 09:56:05 PM »
Only Jimmy finds these  :laugh:
Thanks Tom ;D

This is a film that was in my father VHS collection that I've found on the net. From what I remember this is suppose to be good.

Hope my Father isn't a member he doesn't know that I was watching his movie when I was a teenager :laugh: