{"id":853,"date":"2003-01-30T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-30T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=853"},"modified":"2021-05-19T09:15:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T13:15:03","slug":"translating-two-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/01\/30\/translating-two-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"Translating <i>Two Towers<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/lotrbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Let us return to the continuing adventures of Gandolf Foogray, Gibley, Filden, and Marine the Hobik.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Last year at this time, <i>The Fellowship of the Ring<\/i> was bootlegged to DVD overseas and the subtitles, which went through an English > Chinese > English translation, were laugh out loud funny. The same has happened to <i>The Two Towers<\/i>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/home.online.no\/~gremmem\/engrish_ttt_captions\/index.htm\">this site<\/a> has screen grabs of the best of these subtitles &#8212; such mindboggling quotes as Gollum&#8217;s &#8220;Great to be sneeve&#8221;, Aragorn&#8217;s &#8220;U R my heart&#8221; l33t-speak, Sam&#8217;s poetic &#8220;To taitose mashem taken twist you&#8221;, and Gimli&#8217;s questionable and troubling &#8220;Bring your pussy face to my ass.&#8221;\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Let us return to the continuing adventures of Gandolf Foogray, Gibley, Filden, and Marine the Hobik.&nbsp; &nbsp; Last year at this time, The Fellowship of the Ring was bootlegged to DVD overseas and the subtitles, which went through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/01\/30\/translating-two-towers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotr","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}