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Another good guess, but not quite, Tante. (I know because Imogen told me the answer last night..)
It's more mainstream than that. Think towards the category of "other well known carols with 'Manger' in them..."
I'm sure Imogen will post a better hint when she gets into work later today...
And in the meantime, here's the first stanza of a well known poem, for people to get their heads around:
quote:Me consideration Haess omitted and but one midnight in being desolate, if to be tired the knowledge in many ancient times ocean, it does. It went out and kku virtue time, to be near the napping, it was sudden and from that place who currently my, chamber door gentle knocks in it was and it knocked and it knocked and it came.
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Actually, now I think about it, I'm suddenly not 100% certain that the carol in question actually featured in that particular film. So that might not be a very good hint at all. I'd disregard it. Unless I'm right, in which case it's useful...
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quote:Originally posted by Scythrop: Tante: Another good guess... but still no ;(
What do I know from Christmas carols, anyway? I'm Jewish!
So, let's see you try your hand at this Hebrew School Classic (translated from English to Italian and back again)
quote:The Oh once that it gave a bad man badly and was its name haman, OH -! it tried to murder the whole Hebraeer but they do not have incolpare of, OH -!
quote: The mother his bed stood the low-end livestock open shed which puts her baby in the hazard manger in the place which it illustrates inside one king place bead
Is it this? (found only w/ the aid of Google):
quote: Once in royal David's city, stood a lowly cattle shed, where a mother laid her baby in a manger for His bed:
quote:Originally posted by rivka: Now you have to find Tante's.
How 'bout this? (google again):
quote: Oh, once there was a wicked, wicked man And Hamen was his name sir, He would have murdered all the Jews, Though they were not to blame sir
I know the story--Esther and Mordecai and Hamen and all--but what's the name of the holiday that celebrates this? Is it Purim? (I guess I could google that too, but it's more fun to just ask!) And isn't there some pastry named after Hamen?
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Uprooted wins! It is indeed a Purim song. Purim is coming up soon, and we will all nosh some hamentashen , as immortalized in song.
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OK, here's one (Too easy, probably; not a song):
quote:
Because of a certain, or because as follows is not,: That is question: ' The topping lift and the arrow of a nobler inhuman good fortune it suffers with heart, or or trouble, and tis which takes the arm vis-a-vis the sea by in the opposite direction those finishes thing, how?
quote:Originally posted by Uprooted: OK, here's one (Too easy, probably; not a song):
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Because of a certain, or because as follows is not,: That is question: ' The topping lift and the arrow of a nobler inhuman good fortune it suffers with heart, or or trouble, and tis which takes the arm vis-a-vis the sea by in the opposite direction those finishes thing, how?
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Yup, Hamlet of course. OK, your turn! I gotta get a life -- between this thread and the linguistic profile one . . .
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quote:In order to train rule one days which are to head it followed the that nye. In order to see the young pretense in the school it the child thread smallness low, the rice field.
A popular song, with which I am sure we are all familiar. (Out of copyright, I'm sure). The whole translation makes not a lick of sense to me; only one word seems to have made it there and back unscathed.
English --> Korean --> English
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OK - so can you give us a hint and tell us which word? Hope it's not "to," "that" "in" or "the"!
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This is easy, but my attempt at going from English to German to French to Italian to Portugese to Dutch to English:
quote: Sector which frntière definitively these travel ship of the venture are task is: New denied worlds study, choose a new life and news of civilizzazioni. He bravely goes, where nobody has gone firstly.
This game's a hoot.
Tante: is it Pink Floyd's "The Wall"?
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quote:Space — the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her [whatever]-year mission — to seek out new life, and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!
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OK, now I feel bad because I killed the thread. I will attempt to resuscitate.
quote:In order to train rule one days which are to head it followed the that nye. In order to see the young pretense in the school it the child thread smallness low, the rice field.
Translates to "It followed her to school one day, which was against the rule. It made the children laugh and play to see a lamb in school."
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Perhaps this one will be easier. English --> Russian --> English
quote:I will be less brevity and stout tank of tea. Here my knob, will here be my spout. When I obtain everything after 4 it is evaporated upward, those that I shout. You will incline me over and pour on me outside!
Edited to add: I had come back to the thread to find the appropriate translator link, as BabelFish.com is a pay-for-service.
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quote:As for that the wife we want the single person of possession ones of of the truth good fortune which is recognized generally that is and becomes it is. Opinion it is known, how it enters into the neighborhood perhaps whether feeling that kind of person a little it is that 1st, this truth him heart of thing and the around family which are considered as lawful quality of 1 or other than their daughters is such a healthy fixing.
quote: IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man nay be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
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quote:He real step will be the place man who is not the times when it will sleep, anyone degree anywhere it will make a hazard plan and all his thing step inside the place ground which is not the times when it will sleep flesh n.
Popular song from the 1960's.
English ----> Korean ----> English
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He's a real nowhere man Sitting in his nowhere land Making all his nowhere plans for nobody
I think that's it -- but with all that "ground, sleep flesh" business I have no idea if "doesn't have a point of view" is part of the above or if I should stop where I did!
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Well, convoluted as it is, "the place man" made me think "the tax man" and that wasn't it but I guess it put my head in Beatles mode so "make a hazard plan" sounded oddly enough like "making all his nowhere plans" . . . and then "the place ground which is not" of course just had to be "nowhere land"!
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"And I populate curved and asked at the God at neon, which they made, and I mark trembled outside of its warning in the words, formed and the so-called indications "the words of the prophets on the basement walls and apartment-resounds written" and in the quiet noise whispered"
I'll give them credit, this had to go English-French-English-Italian-French-German-English before it became almost completely incomprehensible. I have had better luck with the Pledge in combinations of Dutch, Turkish and Tagalong.
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