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Here's what I could find out:

The symbol K comes from the Latin word "Kalium" which in turn comes from "alkali."

So I tried Kalimac, Kalessin, Kath (that one is sort of pushing it, though...), The Ka, Alcarillo, Alkanoonion, and Alatar (also pushing it a bit), all to no avail.

Here also is a list I found of the word Potassium in other languages:

Latin: Kalium
Czech: Draslík
Croatian: Kalij
French: Potassium
German: Kalium - s
Italian: Potassio
Norwegian: Kalium
Portuguese: Potássio
Spanish: Potasio
Swedish: Kalium

Probably excessively over-analyzed ( :rolleyes: ), but maybe it will help someone...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alcarillo

Perhaps Potassio is Ka?

Quote:

Originally Posted by arcticstorm

Potassio is the Ka

Correcto! :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shelob

I've tried "The Ka", but I just get "Ka" as the final translation...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Firefoot

So I tried Kalimac, Kalessin, Kath (that one is sort of pushing it, though...), The Ka, Alcarillo, Alkanoonion, and Alatar (also pushing it a bit), all to no avail.

Ah, but you have to use her proper name, viz THE Ka. :p ;)

Just one more Downer to find ...

"Ah, but you have to use her proper name, viz THE Ka." ~Saucepan Man

I did...I coppied it from the members list, I tried typing "THE Ka", I tried "The Ka" I tried just plain "Ka" ...the only way I got "Potassio" was by putting in "Potassium".

Quote:

Originally Posted by shelob

If you want I'll start one. We can call it "The conversion competes he with going"

Either you can start it, or I can. Who's it gonig to be? I really like this kind of thing. It really puts your brain to work trying to figure it out.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shelob

I did...I coppied it from the members list, I tried typing "THE Ka", I tried "The Ka" I tried just plain "Ka" ...the only way I got "Potassio" was by putting in "Potassium".

It's the English - Chinese - English sequence that changes Ka to Potassium.

Glirdan - Shelob has resurrected the old Quotes thread that HerenIstarion linked to earlier.

Your translations made me laugh so much that I became happy. Thank you all. And I got a new signature (see below)

Saucepan Man, I'm hazarding a guess that the last person is Addicted to Rumil.

Nope. :p ;)

She is a well-known member of the Downs, although less active on the site these days than she has been in the past.

There we are, that should be a big clue ...

poor ol' theodon, having his speech engrishized

I really liked tha scene in the movies, and what better way to pay tribute then showing it distorted like this
<Bergil is not responsible for anything risque the translater says>

Quote:

Original English Text:
Arise, Arise, riders of Theodon. Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered. A sword-day, a red day ere the sun rising.
DEATH
DEATH
Ride! Ride to ruin and the worlds ending!

Translated to French:
Surgissent, surgissent, les cavaliers de Theodon. Des lances seront
secouées, des boucliers seront brisées. Un épée-jour, un jour
rouge avant se lever du soleil. Tour de la MORT de la MORT ! Tour à
ruiner et terminer des mondes !

Translated back to English:
Emerge, emerge, the riders of Theodon. Lances will be shaken, of the
shields will be broken. One sword-day, one day red before rising sun.
Tower of DIED of DEATH! Turn to ruin and finish worlds!

Translated to German:
, tauchen auf, tauchen die Mitfahrer von Theodon auf. Lanzen werden,
von den Schildern sind gebrochen gerüttelt. Ein Klinge-Tag,
eintägiges Rot vor steigender Sonne. Aufsatz von GESTORBEN am TOD!
Wenden Sie an Ruine und beenden Sie Welten!

Translated back to English:
, emerge the passengers of Theodon emerge. Lances, of describing are
broken shaken. One blade day, one-day red before rising sun. Essay of
DIED at DEATH! Turn at ruin and terminate you worlds!

Translated to Italian:
, emergono i passeggeri di Theodon emergono. Le lance, di descrizione
sono rotto agitate. Un giorno della lamierina, colore rosso di un
giorno prima del sole aumentante. Saggio del MORTO DI alla MORTE! Giri
a rovina e terminili mondi!

Translated back to English:
, the passengers of Theodon emerge emerge. The nozzles, of description
broken are churned. A day of the lamierina, red color of a day before
the increasing sun. Test of the DEAD MAN OF to the DEAD WOMEN! Turns
to ruin and you finish them worlds!

Translated to Portuguese:
, os passageiros de Theodon emergem emergem. Os bocais, da descrição
quebrados churned. Um dia do lamierina, cor vermelha de um dia antes
do sol crescente. Teste do HOMEM INOPERANTE às MULHERES INOPERANTES!
As voltas a arruinar e você terminam-nos mundos!

Translated back to English:
, the passengers of Theodon emerge emerge. The nipples, of the
description broken churned. One day of the lamierina, red color of one
day before the increasing sun. Test of the INOPERATIVE MAN to the
INOPERATIVE WOMEN! The rollbacks to ruin and you finish them worlds!

Translated to Spanish:
, los pasajeros de Theodon emergen emergen. Las entrerroscas, de la
descripción rota batida. Un día del lamierina, color rojo de un día
antes del sol de aumento. ¡Prueba del HOMBRE INOPERANTE a las MUJERES
INOPERANTES! ¡Las restauraciones no actualizadas a arruinarse y usted
los acaban los mundos!

Translated back to English:
, the passengers of Theodon emerge emerge. Entrerroscas, of the broken
description search. A day of the lamierina, red color of a day before
the increase sun. Test of the INOPERATIVE MAN to the INOPERATIVE
WOMEN! The updated restorations not to go to ruin and you finish
worlds to them!

it gets worse

Quote:

Original English Text:
Arise, Arise, riders of Theodon. Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered. A sword-day, a red day ere the sun rising.
DEATH
DEATH
Ride! Ride to ruin and the worlds ending!

Translated to Japanese:
、Theodon のライダーは起こったり、起こる。やりは、盾裂ける揺れる。剣日、太陽の上昇より前の赤い日。死の死の乗車 ! 台無しになるべき乗車及び世界の終了!

Translated back to English:
The rider of Theodon happens, happens. Doing rips the shield, it
shakes. Sword day, the day when front is redder than rise of the sun.
Riding in a car of death of death! Riding in a car and the end of the
world which should become ruinous!

Translated to Chinese:
Theodon 车手发生, 发生。做剥去盾, 它震动。剑日, 日当前线比星期日的上升红色的。乘坐在死亡死亡汽车! 乘坐在汽车和应该变得毁灭性世界的末端!

Translated back to English:
The Theodon rider occurs, occurrence. Does rips the shield, it
vibrates. The sword date, the date works as front compared to Sunday
rise red. Rides in the death death automobile! Rides and should change
毁灭性 the world terminal in the automobile!

Translated to French:
Le cavalier de Theodon se produit, occurrence. les déchirures le
bouclier, il vibre. La date d'épée, la date fonctionne en tant
qu'avant comparé au rouge d'élévation de dimanche. Tours en
automobile de la mort de la mort ! Les tours et devraient changer le
æ¯ç*æ€§ le terminal du monde dans l'automobile !

Translated back to English:
The rider of Theodon occurs, occurrence. the tears the shield, it
vibrates. The date of sword, the date functions as before compared
with the red of rise in Sunday. Turns in car of died of death! The
turns and should change the æ¯ç*æ€§ the terminal of the world in
the car!

Translated to German:
Der Mitfahrer von Theodon tritt, Auftreten die Risse das Schild, es
vibriert auf. Das Datum der Klinge, arbeitet das Datum wie, vor
verglichen mit dem Rot des Anstiegs in Sonntag. Umdrehungen im Auto
von gestorben am Tod! Die Umdrehungen und sollten das æ¯ç*æ€§
ändern das Terminal der Welt im Auto!

Translated back to English:
The passenger of Theodon occurs, to occurring the breaks the sign, it
vibrated. The date of the blade, operates the date as, forwards
compared with the red of the rise in Sunday. Revolutions in the auto
of died at death! The revolutions and should modify æ¯ç*æ€§ the
terminal of the world in the auto!

Translated to Italian:
Il passeggero di Theodon si presenta, all'avvenimento le rotture il
segno, esso ha vibrato. La data della lamierina, funziona la data
come, spedisce rispetto al colore rosso dell'aumento in domenica. Giri
nell'automobile del morto di alla morte! I giri e dovrebbero
modificare il æ¯ç*æ€§ il terminale del mondo nell'automobile!

Translated back to English:
The passenger of Theodon introduces itself, to the event the breaches
the sign, it has vibrated. The date of the lamierina, works the date
like, sends regarding the red color of the increase in Sunday. Turns
in the automobile of the dead man of to the dead women! The turns and
would have to modify the æ¯ç*æ€§ finish them of the world in the
automobile!

Translated to Portuguese:
O passageiro de Theodon introduz-se, ao evento as rupturas o sinal,
ele vibrou. A data do lamierina, trabalhos que a data gosta, emite a
respeito da cor vermelha do aumento em domingo. Voltas no automóvel
do homem inoperante às mulheres inoperantes! As voltas e teriam para
modificar o æ¯ç*æ€§ terminam-nos do mundo no automóvel!

Translated back to English:
The passenger of Theodon introduces itself, to the event the ruptures
the sign, it vibrated. The date of the lamierina, works that the date
likes, emits regarding the red color of the increase in sunday.
Rollbacks in the automobile of the inoperative man to the inoperative
women! The rollbacks and would have to modify æ¯ç*æ€§ finish them
it world in the automobile!

Translated to Spanish:
El pasajero de Theodon se introduce, al acontecimiento las rupturas la
muestra, él vibró. La fecha del lamierina, los trabajos de que la
fecha tiene gusto, emiten con respecto al color rojo del aumento en
domingo. ¡Restauraciones no actualizadas en el automóvil del hombre
inoperante a las mujeres inoperantes! ¡Las restauraciones no
actualizadas y tendrían que modificar el æ¯ç*æ€§ los acaban él
mundo en el automóvil!

Translated back to English:
The passenger of Theodon introduces itself, to the event the ruptures
the sample, he vibrated. The date of the lamierina, the works of which
the date has taste, they emit with respect to the red color of the
increase in Sunday. Restorations nonupdated in the automobile of the
inoperative man to the inoperative women! The updated restorations and
would not have to modify æ¯ç*æ€§ finish he to them world in the
automobile!

if theodon had a car he would most likely have survived. I hope the international movie-translators did beter then this

P.S.:This has nothing to do whith the contest.

A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun

becomes, with the Chinese/Japanese/Korean option....

The data, if in me who is the extremity of Sunday of the steps, near they finally hide him in the month of the west, ways of the movement.

Amazing. :D

My sig turns into (with the three extra languages):

" The main title bit with the main tube of the bit of the title,
the main tube of the bit of the title and the Isengard! In Isengard!
This main tube of the estimated bit of the title in Isengard! Stupid
main bit of the title of the quality of Beleibte! "

My Eru! Such a simple thing turns bigger. Wow :rolleyes:

My current signature, with the Chinese, Japanese, Korean option, becomes:

Quote:

Probably defective it stops the cause of this calm Meneltarmacil,
majority. ", also " They are; - personal of the
POTENTIOMETER, WW8

Without the East Asian languages, it becomes:

Quote:

"I too much distrusted of Meneltarmacil, due to the tone
silence." to the morning; - the man of the bathtub, WW8

I think I got the last one...
Lush is the drink of the alcoholic one in the Japanese sequence. She's abundant available without it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Celuin

Lush is the drink of the alcoholic one in the Japanese sequence. She's abundant available without it.

It is corrected! The Celuin aerosol is. :)

In other words:

Correct! Well done Celuin. :)

Good! Someone got it, I've been working on it but no luck.

BTW, 'good later part of I' is 'Well, I'm back.'

Wow, you should see what happened to my poor signature:

Quote:

The flag which flows from the west/In is blowing/Tears of the grief which comes to rest/Tears of the thing where the angular joy and start interval flow.

The thing where the angular joy?. My God! :eek:

ok this is weird....

The Perky Ent
becomes(and I'm not lieing)

Rifle automatic of the art of Ritratto convinces otorinolaringoiatra
completely

Let's see what happens when we put in the title of this thread and translate it.

Quote:

It destroys turned

Well, that has a completely new meaning.

Middle-Earth Mirth
becomes
Froehlichkeit of the track meant of

Crazy Captions
is now
Affirmation of the patient of the alcohol

When did alcohol get involved!? :eek:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Glirdan

Crazy Captions
is now
Affirmation of the patient of the alcohol

When did alcohol get involved!? :eek:

have you read the captions? :p alcohol is definately involved

Quote:

Originally Posted by Morsul the Dark

have you read the captions? alcohol is definately involved

O, I haven't read the Captions, I'm in the Captions! ANd I completlely forgot how crazy people are in there! How? I have no idea! But I did.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Morsul the Dark

The Perky Ent
becomes(and I'm not lieing)

Rifle automatic of the art of Ritratto convinces otorinolaringoiatra
completely

I believe you. :rolleyes:

OOOOOO!! How about "Balrog Appreciation Month"! Let's see what happens.

Quote:

Month of the recognition of Balrog

Well that wasn't as bad as I thought It'd be!! Thank Eru!! if it was, I don't know what I'd do!!

I couldn't resist

I translated my signature and it came out as:

Quote:

Indicated of some here inside with the responsibility, but, certain
prevented person? That one is Alcarillo that the name of the occasion
of is the station of the work, this mobilization estimates one. -
Laitaine and WWIIX

with the Asian languages. Without them my signature is:

Quote:

Who nevertheless had the capacity to indicated something of sojourn
here of must? The danger to the swindler is he, that one that
examinación of fêz of Alcarillo for the relative name. - Laitaine,
WWIIX

Not as bad as the first, though.

EDIT: Now that I've changed my signature to better fit WWIX, it is

Quote:

The right decides to Alcarillo, the end to make the examinación of
the mayor of Swankytown! The defective things of dirties to the
expensive outpost of the person, are for the God of laiss!

Special prize to whoever tells me who "Illusion" is.

The phantom would be my guess.

Do I get a prize?

Well done. Perhaps it was a little too easy... Nonetheless, you shall get your prize!

You'll just have to wait a short while.

My newest sig (without the "-Saucy Werewolf IX part) becomes:

Glirdan took with the doubts of the ways (nevertheless) that other
subjects interest the trees of the trowel of the beginning for a
processing in lots of history these and other subjects continue,
ordered to give the form, double of the simple machine of many books.
The relative is possibly the animal, that one the controls of the
situation that stops the interior limits remarkablly?

Well, that's different. Where did "the trees of the trowel" come from? :confused:

Poor Frodo Baggins! His name translates to a full sentence: "I Swindle Baggins."

It's the Italian to English that does it. It comes out the same with the addition of the Oriental languages too. Does Frodo mean "swindle" in Italian?

Pippin (Peregrin Took) came out as a sentence as well: "They had admitted Peregrin."

Meriadoc Brandybuck, Samwise Gamgee and Bilbo Baggins all came through unscathed! Their names must be the same in all languages!

Gandalf the Grey becomes "Gray I gave Gandalf," another sentence in the Yodaspeak.

Ah, I can't take any more!
Cheers!
Lyta

I ran my signature through it.

Quote:

absolutum obseletum - if it works it's out of date

Translated to French:
obseletum d'absolutum - si cela le fonctionne est démodé

Translated back to English:
obseletum of absolutum - if that functions it is obsolete

Translated to German:
obseletum von absolutum - wenn das es ist überholt arbeitet

Translated back to English:
obseletum of absolutum - if it is outdated operates

Translated to Italian:
obseletum del absolutum - se è antiquato funziona

Translated back to English:
obseletum of the absolutum - if it is antiquated works

Translated to Portuguese:
_ obseletum absolutum - se est antiquated trabalh

Translated back to English:
_ obseletum absolutum - est antiquated trabalh

Translated to Spanish:
_ absolutum del obseletum - trabalh anticuado del est

Translated back to English:
_ absolutum of the obseletum - trabalh old fashioned of est

what?

Quote:

absolutum obseletum - if it works it's out of date

Translated to Japanese:
- それをなら旧式働かせればabsolutum のobseletum

Translated back to English:
- If old style it can use, if that obseletum of absolutum

Translated to Chinese:
- 如果它可能使用的老牌, 如果absolutum 那obseletum

Translated back to English:
- If it possibly uses established brand, if absolutum that obseletum

Translated to French:
- s'il utilise probablement la marque établie, si l'absolutum qui
obseletum

Translated back to English:
- if it probably uses the established mark, if the absolutum which
obseletum

Translated to German:
- wenn es vermutlich die hergestellte Markierung benutzt, wenn das
absolutum das obseletum

Translated back to English:
- if it probably the manufactured marking uses, if absolutum
obseletum

Translated to Italian:
- se esso probabilmente gli usi manufactured della marcatura, se
obseletum di absolutum

Translated back to English:
- if it probably uses to it manufactured of the marcatura, if
obseletum of absolutum

Translated to Portuguese:
_ - se provável us manufactured marcatura, se obseletum absolutum

Translated back to English:
_ - probable US manufactured marcatura, if obseletum absolutum

Translated to Spanish:
_ - los E.E.U.U. probables fabricaron marcatura, si absolutum del
obseletum

Translated back to English:
_ - the probable E.E.U.U. made marcatura, if absolutum of the
obseletum

What's the U.S got to do with it? (political opinion removed)

Reviving this...

A Elbereth Gilthoniel
Silivren penna miriel
O menel aglar elennath
Gilthoniel! A Elbereth!

Becomes:

_ menel Miriel de Aglar of elennath of the pain d ' Elbereth
Gilthoniel Silivren Gilthoniel or! _ Elbereth! _

The pain d'Elbereth? Sounds wrathful.

When spring is come to garth and field and corn is in the blade

Becomes:

when motivating garth and zone and cereal, you of see of force t
pagination of est

Pagination of the east? Sounds unholy. I like a bowl of motivating cereal in the morning though.

This is hilarious!! ROFL

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
became
"perforating the track a main title t viv of the bit here" (???)
The Hobbit will be a movie! "A main title"! What else could it mean?

"Poor Legolas, swamped with fangirls."
became
"defective Legolas, inundates with fangirls."
Legolas is defective? I guess we need a new one. Send him back to the factory, boys. That's covered in the guarantee, right?

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio."
became
"_ unfortunate, defective Yorick! _ faç of poss of I, Horatio."
Another defective character! We should sue!

"Sebastian, Dark Crustacean of the Deep! Flee the tyranny of the Evil Lord with a Jamaican accent!"
became
"_ dark Sebastian, crustacéen one deeply! _ false tyranny of
Proteggono getlteman with an accent of the giamaicano!"
So he's only pretending to be a dark lord ... ?

Now I'm adding Chinese, &c.

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
~"perforating the immovable characteristic of mord main of title t
here that arranj."
"Immovable"? So nobody can stop it! YES!

"Poor Legolas, swamped with fangirls."
~"Fangirls this est false Legolas, that inundates."
I knew Legolas was too clever to allow himself to be swamped! He sent a decoy!

"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio."
~"with est å est false ". _ idea of Yorick, Horatio if"
I guess he didn't know Yorick as well as he thought ...

"Sebastian, Dark Crustacean of the Deep! Flee the tyranny of the Evil Lord with a Jamaican accent!"
~"Crustacéen est Sebastian, that caus dark deep of est, important
false voice of Jamaikaners of the autocracy of the majority of the
material that is spilled!"
Did the important false voice of Jamaikaners tell the autocracy of the majority to pick up the spilled material?

My username remained untouched ... my signature:

Original: ~I'm twice as tall as half of you and half as short as twice of you!

~It said all that?
~It's a highly efficient tongue. You can fit a whole book on a napkin.

Translation: _ _ you est short half and two raised to degree of two degrees half -
est! _ _ - est completely? _ _ - this language, that valid end of est
_, knew of est with est lucky sistemazioni yet this napkin _

So ... we have short halves, there is a valid end of est and the sistemazioni would be lucky except for the napkin?

Hilarious! :D :D :D

Second edit: I HAD to add this ...

"Ride now! Ride now! Ride! Ride for ruin and the world's ending! DEATH!"
became
_ hour to the automobile of gir! _ hour to the automobile of gir! _ to
the automobile of gir! _ the verification has proven t or mont a horse
not not an automobile for the summary world! _ morr! _
...?