KoSong: Lost in translation or crossed translation?

How should we judge a government?

In Malaysia, if you don't watch television or read newspapers, you are uninformed; but if you do, you are misinformed!

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience - Mark Twain

Why we should be against censorship in a court of law: Publicity is the very soul of justice … it keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial. - Jeremy Bentham

"Our government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no

responsibility at the other. " - Ronald Reagan

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Lost in translation or crossed translation?

Sometimes, we hear a foreign or any language which we do not understand, we tend to take in certain words that sound alike to a language or dialect that we know. In fact, it is easier to remember too, just like people using acronyms to remember key points and so on.

Like the little Tamil that I picked up at the local restaurant: for cow's milk tea with little sugar, I was taught either 'basumal teh arashini' or 'basumal teh iniperkuawa' or something to that effect. To me, the second one sounds like the Malay 'ini pukul awak'!

Anyway, a friend just forwarded to me this message with the link to a Hindi song which someone has put in a English version and calls it 'Nipple Song'! I hope Indians would not take it too seriously:

Hi Guys,

May I say thousand apologies to my Indian friends for posting this song.

But the Indian song sounds so close to the English lyric translation which appears on the screen.

Anyhow I enjoy listening to the song and nearly died from laughter.

Cheers,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLpROhIg9eA&eurl=http://technodeval.blogspot.com/&feature=player_embedded

Link