Sane Inside Insanity: TOP OF THE SPOTS

martedì, luglio 27, 2004

TOP OF THE SPOTS

Come avrete potuto notare, ho aggiornato il mio traduttore... Non so se vale la pena di diffondere i deliri di Sirius ed Aelfwine, ma sono sicura che loro saranno felici di sapere che affliggono la maggior parte del mondo anglofono e italofono. Vogliono solamente attenzione, vedete.

Ho preso Traduci 10.0 Plus, 69 euro. Non è molto sofisticato come quelli che costaro approssimativamente 180 e più, ma non potevo essere sicura che uno di quelli sarebbe migliore. Una traduzione automatica è solo una bozza su cui lavorare, e perciò può essere usata solamente per piccole cose come scrivere su un blog bilingue o capire un testo in tedesco. Ieri ho tradotto parte di una saga tedesca e ho trovato questo: "Benvenuto, uomo costoso, Re Dietrich di Bern!" Suona un po' come un encomio giapponese...

In ogni modo ha molte buone cose: più lingue incluso il tedesco, un dizionario che si può aggiornare, non richiede registrazione (finalmente basta collegamenti ed e-mail e telefonate perché il codice non funziona...) ed è piuttosto veloce. Sono abbastanza soddisfatta.

As you may have noticed, I've updated my translator... I don't know whether it was worth it to spread the deliriums of Sirius and Aelfwine, but I'm sure they'll be happy to know they plague most of the English-speaking and Italian-speaking world. They only want attention, you see.

I got Traduci 10.0 Plus, 69 euros. It is not very sophisticated like those who cost about 180 and more, but I could not be sure that if I got one of those it would be much better. An automatic translation is always just a draft to work on, and therefore can be used only for small things such as writing on a bilingual blog or understanding a text in German. Yesterday I translated a part of a German saga and I got this: "Welcome, expensive man, King Dietrich of Bern!" It sounds a bit like a Japanese praise...

Anyway it has a lot of good things: more languages including German, a dictionary which you can update, doesn't require registration (finally the end of connections and mails and phone calls because the code doesn't work...) and it's pretty fast. I'm pretty satisfied.

QUOTES

Heart shall be bolder,
harder be purpose,
more proud the spirit
as our power lessens!
Mind shall not falter
nor mood waver,
though doom shall come
and dark conquer.
(The Battle of Maeldon, translated by Tolkien)

He who has a treasure, or a demon in his heart, cannot hide it. (King Theodoric the Great)

I' mi son un che, quando
Amor mi spira, noto, e a quel modo
ch'e' ditta dentro vo significando.
(Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio)

The lambs will stop for now. But, Clarice, you judge yourself with all the mercy of the dungeon scales at Threave; you'll have to earn it again and again, the blessed silence. Because it's the plight that drives you, seeing the plight, and the plight will not end, ever. (Hannibal Lecter)

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude. (Ernest Hemingway)

Would I embarrass you? Yes, it is possible. You see, I... I am crazy. I take the newer medications, but I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Like a diet of the mind, I choose not to indulge certain appetites. Like my appetite for patterns. Perhaps my appetite to imagine and to dream. (A Beautiful Mind)

Night gathers, and now my watch begins.
It shall not end until my death.
I shall take no wife, hold no lands,
father no children.
I shall wear no crowns and win no glory.
I shall live and die at my post.
I am the sword in the darkness.
I am the watcher on the walls.
I am the fire that burns against the cold,
the light that brings the dawn,
the horn that wakes the sleepers,
the shield that guards the realms of men.
I pledge my life and honor to the Night Watch
for this night and all the nights to come.
(GRRM)

Never criticize a person until you walk a mile in their shoes (Atticus Finch)

A warrior for peace is no less a warrior (General Korrd, unwittingly reminding of Yitzhak Rabin)

What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed? Only innocent lives, Peter. (Sirius Black)

Whatever makes a soldier sad will make a killer smile (Leonard Cohen)

I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't. (John Coffey)

Oh, life! 'tis in an hour like this, with soul beat down and held to knowledge, - as wild, untutored things are forced to feel - Oh, life! 'tis now that I do feel the latent horror in thee! but 'tis not me! that horror's out of me! and with the soft feeling of the human in me, yet will I try to fight ye, ye grim, phantom futures! (Starbuck)

I have dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. (Charlotte Bronte)

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me? (Karen Blixen)

Do not you recognize me, Dumas? I am the rearguard of the Grande Armee. I have stood at Kovno, and thrown the last muskets in the Niemen. I am Marshal Ney. Give me a bowl of soup. (Attributed to Michel Ney).