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jessara40k_lj ([personal profile] jessara40k_lj) wrote2005-11-21 03:27 pm
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Translation meme

A meme I saw on a number of my flist's journals has me posting the first paragraph of Incubus, then putting it through an English to German online translator, and then through the same process in reverse.

Dorian regained consciousness to the sound of German cursing, imaginative cursing too, not just simple obscenities. Klaus seemed to be calling down the wrath of the Norse gods on some specific person. He didn’t need to open his eyes to know that he’d been stripped naked and chained against a rough stone wall, but when he did open his eyes, trying to hide the fact beneath the fall of his hair, he saw that the Major had been stripped as well and was chained spread-eagled on the floor, with chains strong enough to hold an elephant inside some arcane looking diagram, hopefully made of red paint.

Dorian wiedergewonnenes Bewußtsein zum Ton des deutschen Verfluchens, phantasiereiches auch verfluchen, nicht gerechte einfache Obszönitäten. Klaus schien, hinunter den Zorn der Skandinaviergötter auf irgendeiner spezifischer Person zu benennen. Er brauchte nicht, seine Augen zu öffnen, um zu wissen, daß er gewesen abgestreiftes blankes und angekettet gegen eine rauhe Steinwand wurde, aber, als er seine Augen öffnete, versuchend, die Tatsache unter dem Fall seines Haares zu verstecken, sah er, daß der Major außerdem abgestreift worden war und verbritt-eagled auf dem Fußboden angekettet wurde, mit den Ketten, die genug, um einen Elefanten innerhalb irgendeines obskuren schauenden Diagramms zu halten stark sind, hoffnungsvoll gebildet von der roten Farbe.

Dorian recovered consciousness to the clay/tone of the German verfluchens, fantasy-rich also verfluchen, not fair simple Obszoenitaeten. Klaus seemed to designate down the anger of the Skandinaviergoetter on any specific person. It did not need to open its eyes in order to know that it became been stripped bright and chained against a rough steinwand, but, when he opened its eyes, trying, to hide the fact under the case of its hair it that the major had been stripped in addition and verbritt eagled on the floor was chained, saw hopeful educated with the chains, which are strong enough, around an elephant within any generic term cures looking diagram to hold, by the red color.