pls translate this to your language, tnx

T

Thomas_E_SP

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Hello guys,

I'm shooting a silent short soon; and I plan to send it to festivals around the world, taking advantage of the fact that it doesn't need words to tell the story (a prize-winner short french story btw)
BUT, there are two words that actually appear on the screen and are part of the plot.
So, I was thinking that people who speak various languages could send its respective translation, and I'll shoot each version, making it way cooler than adding subtitles later.

Here are the two words:

1-The protagonist's wife leaves him and a note that says:
*"goodbye forever"* or "I'm leaving you"

in the original french text it is: je te quitte
in portuguese it is: ate nunca mais

2-She writes on the mirror with lipstick:
*"idiot"* or *"Dick"* or *"Jerk"*
in the original french text it is: connard
in portuguese it is: troxa


Any and every language will be nice, I just have to change the letter and the writing on the mirror and do a take each. Will make a fun bonus segment in the dvd..

If you speak japanese or chinese, I'd love to have those in kanji style too, if you can write it in roman characters I'll get the kanji somewhere.

UPDATE: English, French, German, Thai, Finnish, 1 Japanese, Russian and Portuguese covered; any others? Spanish? Greek? Latin? Vulcan? Thanks for the feedback, you guys rock!!


THANKS A LOT,
thomas
 
If I remember my couple years of College French correctly, "Je te quitte" would translate as "I'm leaving you" and "connard" would translate as "jerk"

That's the French -> English translations as best as I understand them.

Peace,
Larry
 
Thanks Larry,

So the words are:

1-"I'M LEAVING YOU"

2-"JERK"

feel free to give it a twist, so it sounds natural to your language, not necessarily the literal translation

Thanks
 
That does sound natural...that's why I posted them. I did a rough translation in my head, of what I could remember the words were...then made it "English" sounding. The way they would naturally be said....Hope it helps.

Peace,
Larry
 
Larry R said:
If I remember my couple years of College French correctly, "Je te quitte" would translate as "I'm leaving you" and "connard" would translate as "jerk"

That's the French -> English translations as best as I understand them.

Peace,
Larry
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I agree with I'm leaving you/ je te quitte but I would rather say that it would be better to use "dick" for "connard" :huh:
 
German

1/ ICH VERLASSE SIE

2/ DUMME

JAPANESE

1/ Im leaving you doesnt really translate well.. how about goodbye forever?

2/ Kono Aho

Will give you the right characters for these shortly when I get someone to check them for me first.
 
Correct German translations, but no one would use those. (For sure not the "Sie". That's the formal "you". "Dich" would be the familiar.)

I think you'll be better off finding the colorful cultural colloquialisms for the meaning, rather than the words themselves.

For German...hmmm...a simple "Weg" (gone) or a cold "Tschüß!" (bye) might serve. And she should call him an "Arschloch", which means just what you think it means.

NB: I'm not German...there're probably better words/phrases which can be used.
 
In Thai it would translate to:

1) "la gon, taw lot pai" (goodbye, forever)

2) "ngew" (stupid!)

But that's the english phonetics. If you need the Thai script just let me know and I can send you an image.

Good luck!
 
1) Я ухожу от тебя - Ya uhozhu ot tebia - I'm leaving you

2) Придурок - Pridurok - Jerk

that's in russian
 
Larry R said:
If I remember my couple years of College French correctly, "Je te quitte" would translate as "I'm leaving you" and "connard" would translate as "jerk"

That's the French -> English translations as best as I understand them.

Peace,
Larry
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That's totally correct, Larry. :)
 
Finnish:

1-"I'M LEAVING YOU" ('I'm leaving you, goodbye!', as it's the normal way to say it.) -> "Jätän sinut, Hyvästi."

2-"JERK" -> "Mulkku" (Dick) or a more mocking: "Idiootti!" (Idiot)

- Mikko
 
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