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Post by Nerath on Feb 14, 2006 21:42:38 GMT -5
Anyone here speak Italian, whether as a first or second language? If you do, would you be willing to translate an Italian song for me? It's from a TV show that tends to have songs in a lot of different languages (English, Japanese, Russian, and Italian, so far), and it would rock if someone could tell me what it means in English.
And I don't use online translators like BabelFish because they only give ultra-literal translations, which aren't always the way the words are supposed to be translated.
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Post by TheGlove on Feb 14, 2006 23:11:08 GMT -5
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Post by Nerath on Feb 15, 2006 9:13:20 GMT -5
Sorry, no bananas. It's not a conventional TV show song. It's an anime series -- Ghost in the Shell -- and I'm dubious of a couple of translations I've seen, because they don't make as much sense as it seems the song should. Besides, it would be interesting to have someone here translate it -- who knows how the people online did it. They could have used BabelFish. *shrug*
If not, that's okay -- I'll do some more digging. I just wondered.
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Post by arlia101 on Feb 16, 2006 1:27:40 GMT -5
ah, i take italian at school, in my 2nd year
i'd be happy to take a look at the lyrics... what's the title of the song, anyway?
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Post by Nerath on Feb 16, 2006 15:00:34 GMT -5
Here's the song, then. I'll just post it here for anyone to take a whack at it. Sorry if I misspell something; the text in this lyrics book is orange on silver (ouch) and is incredibly hard to read.
Someone told me it was Italian, anyway. I didn't know the Italians used so many apostrophes.
"I Can't Be Cool" (the only English lines of the song, which I left out)
non credi che sia il momento di capire
decidere di non restare immobili
senti le voi che vendono ricchezze vane
l'inganno del potereche consumerà l'ara
tra le catene
ad occhi chiusi
sotto i resti di un sonno profondo
fatto di guerre in nome di dio
tu pensi di possedere la tua vita
sotto il controllo di uomini avidi
senti le voci che vogliono trovare pace
sono oscurate dai potenti sovrani del buio
senza parole
senza reagire
perché so già che l'indifferenza
chiude le porte dell'umanità
se vorrai un'altra realtà
avrai il dono piú grande
sará la tua libertá
senti
This isn't the entire song, but the rest is just a repeat of what's here. Also, if anyone knows what "mondo sommerso" means (I think it's something "world"), it appears randomly in the song.
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Post by arlia101 on Feb 17, 2006 11:45:07 GMT -5
<http://members.shaw.ca/ykdb/discography/lyrics/i_cant_be_cool.html>
that's not only the full lyrics, but someone went through to make a 'smart' translation, too.
&'mondo sommerso' - you were right with 'world'; its something like "submerged world" - seems to go along with the theme of the song
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Post by Nerath on Feb 18, 2006 0:45:47 GMT -5
...*scratches head* I dunno why I didn't find that. Guess sometimes the Internet likes to sit around and taunt me with stuff. *sigh*
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