translation

[gusl]

I always seem to find translating non-technical material surprisingly difficult.

I just spent ~10 minutes on this one, after using Google Translate, which turned out to be marginally useful (e.g. I didn't remember that "behang" -> "wallpaper").

Muggenlied - Jochem Myjer hey teringtyfushoerenmug met jouw gefuckte beet pak aub je piezen en pleur op van mijn planeet hey teringtyfushoerenmug ga toch in de fut je voorbestaan is zinloos en je hebt geen enkel nut kijk bijen helpen bloemen en die horen bij de lente ze steken bijna nooit en maken honing voor dementen maar jij hebt geen functie in de gehele natuur niemand heeft baat van jouw acupuntuur je vindt me kennelijk lekker en je houdt mischien van mij maar ik hou puur van zoogdieren en daar hoor jij niet bij, nee! teringtyfushoerenmug je bent een bloedcel dief zelfs Nelson Mandela wordt van jouw nog aggressief maar weet je wat er kut is and waar iedereen van baalt is dat je mij telkens weer uit de mooiste dromen haalt want ik was gaan dromen van een hele mooie vrouw toen jij eens op dat moment op mijn oren zitten wou ik acht je schuldig aan een misdrijf hou me niet meer in bedwang vanaf nu ben jij voorgoed deel van mijn behang pets boem!

The Mosquito Song - Jochem Myjer hey typhoid-tuberculosis-whore-mosquito with your goddamn bite please pack your stuff and get out of my planet hey typhoid-tuberculosis-whore-mosquito go fuck yourself your existence is meaningless and you have no use at all look bees help flowers and belong in the spring they almost never sting and make honey for the demented but you have no function in the whole of nature nobody benefits from your acupuncture you obviously find me tasty and maybe you love me but I love only mammals and you're not one of us, no! typhoid-tuberculosis-whore-mosquito you're a blood-cell thief even Nelson Mandela gets aggressive from you but you know what sucks and everyone is fed up with, is that you're constantly taking me out of my the best dreams coz I had started dreaming of a very beautiful woman when you at that moment wanted to sit in my ear I find you guilty of a crime hold me back no more now you're forever part of my wallpaper patz boom!

Comments

[bhudson.livejournal.com]

"pets boom!" is weird. Presumably it's onomatopoeia in the original?

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

yup. Nothing to do with the word "pets".

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

heh, I could see a "pet boom" happening if we fed them mosquitos!

[psifenix.livejournal.com]

gefuckte! I love it. :D

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

I'm curious... Gustavo, why didn't you translate this word as "fucked"?

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

it's a small matter of semantics.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

more seriously, "with your fucked bite" would be an odd thing to say.

[bhudson.livejournal.com]

"fucked" doesn't fit there, but "fucking" would. Though it is a bit jarring.

[peamasii.livejournal.com]

wonderful poem, this reminds me of last summer when we were driving through hungary and we were kind of lost, near a lake. there were so many mosquitoes flying around, it was like clouds swarming. as soon as we'd roll down a window to ask for directions there would be like a dozen mosquitoes inside the auto and they were damn hungry. the locals there must have a really good time fending them off.

[bhudson.livejournal.com]

When I was in Hungary last summer -- in Budapest, not exactly a malarial swamp¹ -- I got bit repeatedly every night. One got me in the arch of my foot, which is just plain rude. So, it's not just you.

1: To be fair, Pest (where I was) *was* a malarial swamp, but they built on top of it.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

did they actually have malaria? would that be the pest after which the city was named? ;-)