01-21-2008, 01:23 PM
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Maskerade: "This damn' door sticks"
Hi, my first time posting here - hope I'm doing it right.
I could do with the following verse translating into Italian, with bonus points for making it... poetic: 'This damn' door sticks This damn' door sticks It sticks no matter what the hell I do It's marked "Pull" and indeed I am pulling Perhaps it should be marked "Push"?' Now, this may seem like an eccentric thing to need translating, so I shall proceed to explain. We're performing Stephen Briggs' adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Maskerade. In this play, Agnes Nitt is required to sing an aria, which begins: "Questa maledetta porta si blocca, si blocca comunque diavolo lo faccio..." Now, I don't really have much of a clue about Italian, so if anyone can enlighten me as to the accuracy of this 'translation,' I'd be very grateful. However, the English verse given above seems to be considerably longer. Since I'm intending to compose the score for this, I wanted a more full Italian version to fit the music to. Hope you can help, Thanks. |
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01-22-2008, 12:07 AM
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Hello!
I'm going to try... Questa maledetta porta si blocca Questa maledetta porta si blocca si blocca qualsiasi cosa diavolo (io) faccia c'è insegnato "tirare" e difatti sto tirando puo darsi, dovrebbe essere scritto "spingere"? Ciao! 
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01-23-2008, 10:01 AM
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I don't feel very poetic...
Questa maledetta porta si incastra Questa maledetta porta si incastra si incastra qualsiasi cosa diavolo faccio c'è scritto "tirare" e infatti sto tirando e se invece dovesse esserci scritto "spingere"? :D Terry Pratchett? that man is awesome! I haven't read the book tuo speak about, but "guard guards" made me laugh to tears Digius PS Lucydelsol's translation is correct, but "insegnare" is wrong, it means "to teach"...maybe you wanted to say "c'è un'insegna con su scritto" where "insegna" means "marking"
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01-26-2008, 11:22 AM
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Hello Digius! You're my Gardian Angel
 Thanks for the correction. Yvor, I hope all very good for what's your doing! Buona fortuna-Good luck to you. Ciao!
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01-27-2008, 03:59 PM
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hahaha don't joke with that! :D your guardian angel helps you more than I could possibly do
see you soon
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