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Anyone know of a really good top-quality German-to-English translator that doesn't cost money, or someone who can translate something for me for free?
Monday, 08-Oct-12 18:18:26 UTC from web-
@cutiemarkcrusader I speak a fair amount of German, so I should be able to translate some stuff for you to English.
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@omni Do you think you could translate Rammstein's song Mein Herz Brennt?
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@cutiemarkcrusader As much as I hate Rammstein (really, their music and lyrics are below-average), I'll give it a try.
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@cutiemarkcrusader That's already been translated before: http://herzeleid.com/en/lyrics/mutter (first item on that list, and the translation looks pretty sound, based on my limited knowledge of German)
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@bitshift I've already spot some mistakes, I'll try to improve the translation for @cutemarkcrusader a bit
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@omni Heh, I don't think I've ever met a native and/or fluent German speaker who actually likes Rammstein. As someone who doesn't really grasp the language well enough to understand it in real time, I can enjoy the sound of the language, but I can certainly see how the lyrics are simplistic enough to not be appealing if you can understand them that well.
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@bitshift Rammstein was only appealing to me before I could understand it well too. Now I can understand it, I can clearly see how filled with bad innuendos their lyrics are which, as you can probably understand with my constant complaining about it, bothers me a lot.
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@omni Alright. I slightly understand it, but not enough. I know the Mein Herz Brennt German lyrics pretty good. It's really the only German band I listen to.
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@bitshift Most JPOP is like this too. If you actually look up what the lyrics are, most of it's really terrible. But if you can't understand them it's pretty great to listen to ☺
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@cutiemarkcrusader @bitshift Seems the translation wasn't even all that bad. At any rate, very slightly fixed version added as attachment. http://ur1.ca/ai775
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@cutiemarkcrusader I actually don't have any German music at all anymore, the most I have is some German band making English songs and rarely talking a bit in German. I like some French music, though: http://youtu.be/1gGv0uQtn74
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@omni I see
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