Lost in Translation

[the guy who be short]

This is quite handy for solving disputes too.

What is Tom Bombadil? Why, the answer is simple: That ã. ã is. Bombadil? Now we just need to figure out which ã. ã is being referred to and, indeed, what an ã. ã is.

Unfortunately, the website is of no further help. I asked What is an ã. ã? The answer was _. _ therefore is something. So, with the Tom Bombadil debate, just remember that Tom is an ã. ã and _. _ exists because of him.

Do balrogs have wings? becomes It is to a wing in balrogs?. Notice, to a wing, not just "a" wing. So that's a no.

Finally, should Fordim make more polls? This became It would have Fordim to more form of the elasticity to many of votings? I interpret this to mean yes, but with more "elasticity," that is, more varied polls.

[Firefoot]

The only thing that comes to mind for "Potassio" is Potatothan.

And "Slandering" is obloquy.

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by TGWBS

The Man of the Bathtub - perhaps a new thread should be created in Quizes or Quotes (or, more likely, dug up) for all your brainteasing needs?

Click on the link that HerenIstarion provided further up. I believe that the thread has been dormant for some time now, so anyone can pose a new question.

Originally Posted by Firefoot

And "Slandering" is obloquy.

Correct.

As for the remaining names, some hints:

Potassio came about, as I recall, via Potassium which I surmise was derived from its Chemical Symbol.

Abundant available and Drink of the alcoholic one are one and the same person. The "translations" actually make sense, given the meaning of this person's name.

[Alcarillo]

Perhaps Potassio is Ka? The symbol for potassium is K.

[arcticstorm]

Potassio is the Ka

eidt: cross posted with Alcarillo

[Shelob]

"I believe that the thread has been dormant for some time now, so anyone can pose a new question." ~Saucepan Man

I was in the process of starting a new thread but, due to the translator having problems *shakes fist at computer*, I'll just post there when I end up with a full translation...

(EDIT: I finally got a full translation, so that thread should be up and running again...please move the game section of this there and leave TGWBS's thread free for people with wildly amusing translations. "Thag you very buch" )

as for "Potassio" I was about to go looking into the idea that it came from potasium...having given up all hope that it had anything to do with potatoes...oh well, we must do our best to remember the wise advice of Douglas Adams:
"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes."

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

[Firefoot]

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 ( ), but maybe it will help someone...

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Alcarillo

Perhaps Potassio is Ka?

Originally Posted by arcticstorm

Potassio is the Ka

Correcto!

Originally Posted by Shelob

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

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.

Just one more Downer to find ...

[Shelob]

"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".

[Glirdan]

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.

[The Saucepan Man]

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.

[Thinlómien]

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

[Glirdan]

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

[Meneltarmacil]

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

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:

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

[Celuien]

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.

[Glirdan]

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

It destroys turned

Well, that has a completely new meaning.

[Morsul the Dark]

Middle-Earth Mirth
becomes
Froehlichkeit of the track meant of

[Glirdan]

Crazy Captions
is now
Affirmation of the patient of the alcohol

When did alcohol get involved!?

[Morsul the Dark]

Originally Posted by Glirdan

Crazy Captions
is now
Affirmation of the patient of the alcohol

When did alcohol get involved!?

have you read the captions? alcohol is definately involved

[Glirdan]

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.

[Glirdan]

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?

[Lyta_Underhill]

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

[Bergil]

I ran my signature through it.

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?

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)