Comments on: Lyric translation quiz – WIN BIG PRIZES

By: Banditry » See #15 for my judgement

Banditry » See #15 for my judgement — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:32:12 +0000

[...] I gave you all an extra few days, but you still failed. [...]

By: John B

John B — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:35:52 +0000

Cos they’d imply it was good to start with.

By: Tim Worstall

Tim Worstall — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:52:45 +0000

“sarcastic jibes about how the blog has gone downhill.”

Why would such jibes be sarcastic?

:-)

By: Edmund

Edmund — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:08:10 +0000

10 is The Kinks?

By: John B

John B — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:06:15 +0000

Haha, I see what you’ve done there. Again, good but not right. NRG has the correct band for #4.

Another clue: 2, 3, 13 and 14 should all be fairly easily guessable as long as you know the song – some fairly unique words or concepts survive in the translation. The others… hmmm, I’ll be super-impressed.

By: James

James — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:55:42 +0000

@James D'oh! I mean 4

By: James

James — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:55:06 +0000

3 = Roxanne

By: Edmund

Edmund — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:53:11 +0000

“You’re not hard core” (from “School of Rock”) doesn’t actually reach equilibrium – it forms a Markov chain of length 3.

The main thing that seems to mix is up is to have a “that….” clause
which it translates into an adjectival phrase using the plain form of the verb. When it translates it back into english it sometimes treats the plain form as an auxilary verb. I expect that it would handle kayooshi adjectives better than kayoodooshi adjectives, for the same reason.

By: John B

John B — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:24:40 +0000

It’s good, but it’s not right.

By: hellblazer

hellblazer — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:05:28 +0000

a stab in the dark: #11 – That’s Entertainment?