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NejinOniwa

#4380
May 29, 2008, 06:30:29 PM
Shit. Dualscreen mode screws this thing up good. I feel somewhat strange in my head.
YOU COULD HAVE PREVENTED THIS

Smokey

#4381
May 29, 2008, 06:35:46 PM
Ah dualscreen...The good 'ol days...
Now i have 2 GFX cards and one screen... :D
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icerain

#4382
May 29, 2008, 07:56:33 PM
The day before yesterday I finished all seven books in Harry Potter.
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NejinOniwa

#4383
May 29, 2008, 08:36:51 PM
Mad as a hatter, you are.

I'm listening to Stephen Lynch, though, so I shouldn't say much. ^^
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Smokey

#4384
May 29, 2008, 08:55:32 PM
Like the Lord of the Rings more...
and, yes the books (all 4 of them, well there are some 17 of 'em :D) are a whole lot better than the movies...
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NejinOniwa

#4385
May 29, 2008, 09:19:06 PM
Tolkien was a pretty cool guy, eh.
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VonDaab

#4386
May 29, 2008, 11:55:03 PM
Yeah, Tolkien was a pretty cool guy, wrote books and wasn't afraid of anything...

Anyways, I've been searching for some time already for some decent english prints of the tolkien books.
I've got a huge culture gap because I've never read any tolkien books. Well, last time I read a book was probably 4 years ago so...

Smokey

#4387
May 30, 2008, 05:36:16 AM
Yeah, i know your problem, most books here are printed in dutch, and Tolkien's books are very hard to translate, especially to dutch, since the translators are idiots here...
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NejinOniwa

#4388
May 30, 2008, 07:56:21 AM
There are two versions of the Swedish translations. The first, older one, is the one I've read, and it translates much and well, but is somewhat inaccurate on points; the new one translates accurately but sounds stupid, which makes the whole book a waste of time.
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Smokey

#4389
May 30, 2008, 07:59:13 AM
The problem i have with dutch translations (not only in books btw) is that the translators try too hard to translate everything, even the puns, wich result in literal translations or replacements wich feel out of place and makes it all feel forced...
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VonDaab

#4390
May 30, 2008, 08:17:24 AM
...the reason why I'm looking for the english print.

Of course there are the Finnish translated ones, but srsly, you can guess the quality.

Smokey

#4391
May 30, 2008, 09:52:48 AM
Yeah, i know...
The thing that really ticks me off is that they even translated all of the names!!!
I mean, YOU DON'T TRANSLATE FRIGGIN' NAMES!!!
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VonDaab

#4392
May 30, 2008, 10:04:46 AM
Yeah you mean the names of places?

Because the fin-translation people decided that Isengard has to be translated, thus it became "rautapiha" which loosely translates to "iron yard" yard in like frontyard or similar.
It just.... sounds so stupid and unfitting.

Smokey

#4393
May 30, 2008, 10:45:09 AM
I actually tripped over the translation of Baggins to Balings...
That sounds (to me) like dutch verb balen wich means (something like) to be bummed out...)
Luckily they weren't such idiots to translate  the names of the various places the little Frodo "Bummer" went to...
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icerain

#4394
May 30, 2008, 06:34:35 PM
Today I had to dance... I hated it. I am also a little sick.
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