As you can see, most of the hilarity simply comes from things getting lost in translation (especially the character names: Anakin is refered to throughout the film as "gold," "Allah gold," "line," and "the peaceful is willing to" and Obi-Wan is "ratio," for example). There are times, though, that the Blind Idiot Translation is actually better than the real dialogue, as in the line "This is your own masterpiece" (instead of "You have done that yourself) as seen above. The most awesome example, however, comes from my subject title:

Anyway, there are a ton of awesomely mistranslated lines that you'll see popping up in my subject titles, and that is where they come from. /geek


 

Ever since last weekend I've had a plot bunny for a short piece involving Daria and what is essentially her friend-with-benefits, since they're pretty much best friends since they were kids and then end up having four kids together (though they're certainly having a little more sex than that which produces the children). The problem was that I had no good name for said boything. He had been called Finn for a while, but I realized that wasn't really working out (and the second "n" would be lost in the phonetical spelling from their alphabet, which would make his name Fin, and even though the phonetical spelling doesn't turn up in the actual writings, it would still bother me). I then thought about calling him Owen, but that didn't work either (because even though I used to love the name, the look of it now inexplicably bothers me), and I considered Mattin nicknamed Matty, but then I realized that I hated the look and sound of Mattin so that wouldn't work either. Then there was the whole Aeron issue of last night, in which I couldn't have Aeron pronounced as Aaron because then it would rhyme with Perrin, and so then I considered insisting on the pronunciation "EYE-run"--but then I realized that that sounded like a treadmill manufactured by Apple: iRun. So I thought I would remedy that by spelling it Aerin, so that it would be pronounced more like "EYE-rin," but then I realized that that would be one syllable off from Aneirin. So I was at a loss for a moment and then I realized I could shuffle around some names so that he was Destin (which had previously been the name of Perrin and Julia's son, who hadn't yet done anything of importance). So now the boything has a name: Destin Palenight. Now hopefully I can get started on the piece. (Of course, now Perrin and Julia's son doesn't have a name, but he might be able to pull off Zorion. He has a sister named Axelle, after all.)

(And then, after all that, I realized that I shouldn't really be concerned about the similarity of names because I have a Leah and a Leon--whose storylines don't intersect, thankfully--and that's not subject to change anytime soon. So conceivably, I could have had an Aerin and an Aneirin. But Destin will remain Destin. It's easier than trying to force the pronunciation EYE-rin for Aerin.)

I started reading Moby-Dick today for English, and what I've read so far (the first six chapters) has been surprisingly amusing. And I've also found hints of Ho Yay. (Damn you, TV Tropes Wiki.) Anyway, I know I shouldn't get my hopes up for this actually being a good book, because I've been assured that there will be times that I will hate this book. But at least it's good for now.