Dogmudgeon
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Fri Nov-21-03 01:47 AM
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Sci-Fi Movie Challenge: Latin mistranslated into English |
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Latin scholars? SALVE, dudes!
These are all bad literal translations of the titles of popular science fiction movies. Almost all of them are from Latin; one is from Greek, and one is even from Polish! (And that’s a HUGE clue in itself.)
Some of them may be increasingly proliciously intelligible if you intercalate a sufficient copium of hyphens, or upon invagination of the peculiar pseudo-constructions of the English genitive voice. (Gobbledygook? That’s part of the challenge!)
I’ll give all of yous half an hour before I come back and check up on yous.
1: The Beyond-Earthish 2: Craftily Made Reading Between-ness 3: Dream Ripping Go-Thing 4: Smaller Bring-Back 5: Maker of the Hunt 6: Someone Else's Birthingness 7: Someone Else's Straightening On Again 8: Steersman-Like Gutness Idea 9: The Day of Not Hanging Off Of 10: Maker of the Little End 11: The Womb (could also be The Mother Thing) 12: The Wanderer of the Imitating Monkeys 13: With a Touch 14: Worker Grab
Bonus: 15: Known Thing Made-Up-ness
Do you have any corrections to the list? Or my sig quip below? By all means, feel free to decorticate me in public! :-)
--bkl Ex Reticulum Computora Populusque Americanorum
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Bossy Monkey
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Fri Nov-21-03 01:53 AM
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1. No idea. But I'm going off to Hong Kong immediately... |
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to make The Wanderer of the Imitating Monkeys. :)
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Fri Nov-21-03 02:08 AM
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I didn't get very many because I don't know the names of sci-fi movies. Here's a start for somebody who does:
1: The Beyond-Earthish - extraterrestrial 2: Craftily Made Reading Between-ness 3: Dream Ripping Go-Thing 4: Smaller Bring-Back - minor 5: Maker of the Hunt - factor 6: Someone Else's Birthingness - Alien 7: Someone Else's Straightening On Again 8: Steersman-Like Gutness Idea 9: The Day of Not Hanging Off Of 10: Maker of the Little End 11: The Womb (could also be The Mother Thing) - Matrix 12: The Wanderer of the Imitating Monkeys 13: With a Touch - contact 14: Worker Grab
Bonus: 15: Known Thing Made-Up-ness
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Fri Nov-21-03 03:52 PM
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3. a few more attempts, if you're still there |
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1: The Beyond-Earthish - extraterrestrial 2: Craftily Made Reading Between-ness - Artificial Intelligence 3: Dream Ripping Go-Thing 4: Smaller Bring-Back - Minority Report 5: Maker of the Hunt - factor (or Predator?) 6: Someone Else's Birthingness - Alien Nation 7: Someone Else's Straightening On Again - Alien Resurrection 8: Steersman-Like Gutness Idea - governing? 9: The Day of Not Hanging Off Of - Independence Day 10: Maker of the Little End - Terminator 11: The Womb (could also be The Mother Thing) - Matrix 12: The Wanderer of the Imitating Monkeys 13: With a Touch - contact 14: Worker Grab
Bonus: 15: Known Thing Made-Up-ness
please correct anything going down the wrong track. And tell me which is Polish, so I don't waste time on it (can't think of any Polish titles at all).
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