zondag 9 mei 2010

What a difference language can make

I just had a look at the 8 comments on my march post and once again I found a confirmation for the poetry power of the Japanese language, compared to the flat obscenity of the same words in Chinese.

See for yourself what happens after you put this piece of text in Google Translate:

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In the Japanese-English translation  you get this mysterious; yet poetic piece of text


(Adult Breeze)


A piece (of) shadow 
(covers the) cost of isolation
 (a) short piece (of) beauty
 a free vision for a free Tribune


Castle Shadows heaven  
visual piece shadow(s) cost of isolation rooms
adult vision (in) the capital city,
(a) monitoring, network
 (where) Aircraft strokes (our) room 


Odaka, 
visual piece 
shadow(s) cost of isolation
a cost of isolation strip
visual line for a Free Japan 


a Film chamber heaven 
 visual sound shadow
 pasting free shadow pieces
 curves, shadow lines for a Free piece
an adult breeze


How subtle and charming; I thought after reading this translation: Odaka must be the beloved one; the protagonist in the author's fantasies; the queen of his heaven. Yet; the author feels isolated in his capital city; only catches her visual shadow which is  worth all the costs of his isolation.


The Chinese translation pushed me with my nose on the naked facts, no heavens and shadows in isolation, but...


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I go to bed with the silent hope that the person who posted this reaction was a warm-hearted Japanese :)

Vegan a go go

Back in Bilzen.... desk lamp providing some shadow in the dark overwhelmingness of a talking living room. Turkye waving in a distance; with a thesis hill in between which only allows me to see some moving fingertips. Electionposters will cover cultureboards soon, both in Belgium and the Netherlands; partners in political chaos: Falling... falling... failing.... We don't agree whether or not to stay together. But we agree we can't keep it like this, because we can't agree. I got alienated by living rooms with couches; the internal architecture around the television shrine; the center of attention; never speechless; never still, never without suggestions on how to improve our failing lives or making fun of other people in order to make us feel better/worse/worried/unsafe/... This is where I grew up. My mind craving for coziness; family reunions; a mothersday sunday cuddle, Auroville in the back of my head, Amsterdam and European capitalmentalities braggin about the freedom of anonimity... and me, trying to understand where I can buy anthropological glasses...

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