A Japanese blogger is apparently tracking the Code Pink demonstration at Berkeley and was kind enough to link to my little post. AltaVista’s Babelfish helpfully rendered his translation of my post thus:
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As for you hero something wellBy lex, on October 20th, 2007
October 20th, 2007 | Category: Blogging
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Targets of Opportunityblog advertising is good for you Credo"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones "Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra" "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche "A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke “You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier "Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas "Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex Amazon AssociateFor the Effort!Winnar! Subscribe CategoriesPagesTagsacademy
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Domo arigato Mr. LexBoto.
“That it can use the lie which is worn out in you”
Been a lot of that recently, much to my disgust.
I can just see some little old Japanese lady years from now recognizing Pablito skulking in the Ginza [probably selling Maoist tracts], then whacking him about the head and shoulders with her paper umbrella, screeching:
“Cowardly person! Traitor of pledge tearing!”
Oaths are important in Japan.
What’s with this “dickward?” Dictionary.com doesn’t recognize it. Is it dickwad [which dictionary.com also doesn't recognize]? Or dinkwad [which it does].
We old editors get disturbed when we encounter this, even in Japanese translations, and similar mysteries in instruction booklets for Japanese-made technological equipment. Come on, my contumacious friends, enlighten me.
Marianne Matthews
Marianne, Marianne
Contumacious is such a lubberly thing to say.
Contumacious conduct is a serious charge, that smacks of obstinate disobedience and mutiny –of which no decent sailor would abide.
So if you must chide us, call us churlish:
adjective
“Lacking in delicacy or refinement: barbarian, barbaric, boorish, coarse, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, indelicate, philistine, rough, rude, tasteless, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar. ”
And if those words were proper names in a roll call, we’d answer ‘Here!’ And besides, making up or modifying swearwords is the swabbie’s perogative. Whatever it takes to make machinery or messmates behave the way they’re supposed to. If that means calling someone a ‘dickwad’, so be it.
“Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.” — Mark Twain
“His own duty basting”
Go down to crew’s mess and locate the duty baster.
That doesn’t sound good.
Gee. I hope none of these folks are “official’ interpreters…
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CPT J beat me to it.
“Cowardly person! Traitor of pledge tearing!”
I can’t wait to use that somewhere.
Capt J … I didn’t mean to chide you all at all. I think you’re all quite wonderful… I should have asked my old husband, also an editor. He came back, read your posting and said “You should have asked me. A dinkwad is a dickwad only smaller.
Marianne Matthews
Contumacious.
What a lovely word to describe myself, kinda rolls off the tounge, doesen’t it?
Dang. And I’m oh-so- GLAD!
Side note: The Second Mrs. Pennington was a J-to-E translator in one of her past lives. She kept me perpetually entertained with the most bizarre Japlish imaginable…and there’s a LOT of it in the automotive and technical areas in which she worked. I didn’t save any of those things, unfortunately. I should have…
Lex, of course you don’t say that. You are much more direct with a good ole “buddy f@cker!’
Kind of explains all those English language T-shirts, doesn’t it.
You should turn the translator to the rest of the post. He’s actually got your tone down pretty well and his opening words of the quote from your post “Dame DA!” are words any American who has spent time in Japan should recognize.
He explains to his readers who Pablo is. He explains how he would not leave the shore and was punished by a court. The next paragraph is an explanation of how the Navy is in no danger in the Arabian Sea and that Lex said so. He says that there are no special forces even SEALS there. He then explains that he knows something about the Navy as he had a friend who served in the Navy off the Coast of Vietnam and another who served in a support ship during the first gulf war. There might be danger from SCUD missiles but since Saddam is dead there is no chance of that.
Then he explains that in peacetime one joins the Navy for pay and benefits, but in war time there are other obligations. He explains how Padres says because he is of color he would be sent to the front. A navy person has no right to say that therefore Lex is angry about that.
(I cannot take credit for translating this-I made the S.O. read it a couple of times and we worked our way through the last 4 paragraphs with our dictionary). She got bored after the Lex is angry paragraph so………..)
But I learned a bunch of new words-thanks!
PS, the S.O. says he stopped at oath breaker…….he did not put the B-F**ker part in.
I forgot to mention that “he” is really a she.
See the author’s picture here.
She says she is called Ichigohatake Kakashi (Which translates to Strawberry Field Scarecrow). She lives with Mr Strawberry in Southern California but was born in Japan and is interested in all things American.