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#1 User is offline   Aptorian 

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Posted 02 February 2019 - 07:23 AM

We set up a new display yesterday. The covers might be too much of a give away but I thought the board could play a game of "guess who".

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EDIT: Added spoilers because size.

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Posted 06 February 2019 - 09:47 PM

I don't get it

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I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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Posted 06 February 2019 - 10:06 PM

I was scared to try, but since someone was as confused as I was, I'll open with:

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Posted 07 February 2019 - 04:20 AM

You guys are terrible.

Normally people have fun with foreign covers of the malazan books in different languages.

The challenge is to guess what these titles are translated from English to Danish.
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Posted 07 February 2019 - 04:47 AM

View PostAlternative Goose, on 07 February 2019 - 04:20 AM, said:

You guys are terrible.

Normally people have fun with foreign covers of the malazan books in different languages.

The challenge is to guess what these titles are translated from English to Danish.


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But isn't that sorta easy since the author names don't change and are rather prominently displayed? Like, there's only so many books by George RR Martin, I'm not going to guess "The Hippompotamus' Crown"...?

And I think the Ben Aaronovitch one translates into English as something like "Watery streams of the English Capital" :)

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I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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Posted 07 February 2019 - 04:54 AM

Yeah, but you called the game "Guess who" when the who was quite literally spelled out already...
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Posted 07 February 2019 - 05:26 AM

I was going to guess - "Winter is here to stay, buy a winter coat bitch!". But google translate came up with the following.
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Posted 07 February 2019 - 06:27 AM

I hate you people. This is why we can't have nice things! :)

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Posted 07 February 2019 - 06:58 AM

I still don't get it.
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Posted 07 February 2019 - 12:03 PM

Apt, you should hate yourself for so poorly explaining the concept you were aiming for. I thought that you were trying to make us guess which author that collection of books could be in reference to (as in: 'if you like *this* writer, you will also enjoy *these* books', but then in reverse. 'Guess who' by association, as your bleeding title suggested!). Which is a way better concept anyway and I would totally set this up and launch it myself if I was any good at describing authors based on genre similarities with other authors. Which I am not. But I won't stop anyone else from running with this amazing idea and redeem this car crash of a thread from inevitable obsolescence.
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Posted 07 February 2019 - 12:43 PM

How dare you!
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Posted 07 February 2019 - 07:28 PM

Is the premise that the foreign language titles aren't word-for-word direct translations of their English titles, so we should guess what their exact English translations would be?

E.g. "En Konges Vej" translates literally to "Inside Kong's You-Know-What-You-Know-Where"?
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Posted 07 February 2019 - 09:21 PM

Sure. The challenge would be to guess the actual title without googling it and I'd add what the actual Danish translation was.

Often Danish translators take serious liberties with titles.

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Posted 07 February 2019 - 11:10 PM

The Blood Mirror by Brent Weeks?
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Posted 08 February 2019 - 04:06 AM

Correct! Great guess, Slow Ben!
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Posted 08 February 2019 - 05:30 AM

I see Way of Kings (2 volumes) Before they are Hanged,Last Argument of Kings, The Steel Remains and I'm guessing the Hobb book is Royal Assassin?
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Posted 08 February 2019 - 06:46 AM

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Posted 09 February 2019 - 11:56 PM

Oh.

So is Brandon Sanderson "En Konges Vej" = "The Kings Way"?
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Posted 10 February 2019 - 08:03 AM

It's skewed a bit as En Konges Vej would translate into A King's Way.

Mentalists guesses are all correct though for some reason The Steel Remains has been translated into The Will of the Steel/ Stålets vilje in Danish.

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Posted 10 February 2019 - 08:41 AM

Ah, of course, I should have remembered en= a, like ein = a.
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