Has the PD ever been published in other languages? Or even had bootleg translations made of it on the web?
I am going to seek this out when I get home today, but if anyone already knows, that'd be pretty sweet.
I'm imagining some pretty ridiculous difficulties in trying to translate it, but I am nonetheless rather curious.
If you look around here, this is a topic that comes up every so often.
I don't think anyone on heres done it fully yet.
See Cain for details.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Discordia#Translations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Discordia#Translations)
Excellent. You guys are the rock. :D
Of course, I might change my mind once I'm not at work so I have the liberty to do more thorough reading/research, but for the moment, danke!
I believe there are French and German translations of the PD, as well as a Russian and Japanese one in the works. We should have ones in every major European language however, and perhaps the biggest transnational ones as well (Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, etc)
I personally am working on an Arabic version, because then I can get a fatwa and knighthood [/Salman Rushdie]
the german version from www.principia-discordia.de is very good, but the german book is crap.
They tried to translate all the word games to litaraly in the book and that made it a failure.
But the online Verion is good, for all of you who want to read it ;)
thanks I'll check it out. (danke alter!)
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Okay, I guess it wasn't as useful as I remembered it being.
I think the Wikipedia article had some good stuff, though.
Quote from: Discord on June 22, 2007, 08:16:13 PM
the german version from www.principia-discordia.de is very good, but the german book is crap.
They tried to translate all the word games to litaraly in the book and that made it a failure.
But the online Verion is good, for all of you who want to read it ;)
You're right, the german book is translated really crappy. But however, for native german speechers it may help to understand the english one if you have both versions next to each other for comparsion.
One of the dutchies here should translate the PD into dutch. Because nothing it more useful than a dutch translation.
Did somebody say Dutchie?
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"Pass it on the left hand side!"
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Actually, this idea has huge humor potential: almost ANYTHING looks funnier in Dutch.
Quote from: Verbatim on June 30, 2008, 02:16:51 PM
Actually, this idea has huge humor potential: almost ANYTHING looks funnier in Dutch.
it's true.
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Hey, we should put the PD through google translator. That will make it funny even for modern readers. :roflcake:
Quote from: Cain on June 21, 2007, 11:34:59 AM
I believe there are French and German translations of the PD, as well as a Russian and Japanese one in the works. We should have ones in every major European language however, and perhaps the biggest transnational ones as well (Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, etc)
I personally am working on an Arabic version, because then I can get a fatwa and knighthood [/Salman Rushdie]
انا كنت قتل
anl kanet qatl?
Quote from: Verbatim on July 05, 2008, 11:13:50 AM
anl kanet qatl?
YOU BETTER FUCKING TAKE THAT BACK WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT MY MOTHER THERE
Quote from: triple zero on July 08, 2008, 11:16:05 AM
Quote from: Verbatim on July 05, 2008, 11:13:50 AM
anl kanet qatl?
YOU BETTER FUCKING TAKE THAT BACK WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT MY MOTHER THERE
FUCK YOU, MY MOTHER WAS KILLED BY NOT TALKING ABOUT HER IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.
OK, I admit, that one was a stretch.
FUCK YOU MY MOTHER WAS KILLED BY A STRETCH!
FUCK YOU MY MOTHER WAS KILLED BY A SELF REFERENTIAL JOKE NOT DIRECTLY REFERRING TO ANYTHING BUT ITSELF
GÖDEL KILLED MY MOTHER!
Quote from: LMNO on July 08, 2008, 04:37:02 PM
GÖDEL KILLED MY MOTHER!
he only kills moms that are omega-complete, though.