French translation: More and more strips!

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:26 pm

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Hey,
I've seen there isn't Housepets translation here.
Thus I submit to translate the comics in French, even if that's not easy. Enjoy!

Some names in French (but not translated in the French version):
_ Fox : Renard
_ Grape : Raisin
_ King : Roi
_ Peanut : Cacahuète
_ Pridelands : "Terres Fières"/"Terres de la Fierté"
_ Tiger : Tigre

Two_Twig · Post by **Two_Twig** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:34 pm

Good luck with the Translations!

I'd love to see this continue, by then my French might actually get a little better.

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:30 pm

Good luck with translating the puns, I know they've had difficulty with the puns in the Spanish and Italian translations.

Post by **rickgriffin** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 7:39 pm

Hmm, there has got to be an easy way to put together an alt language version of the site

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:00 pm

There probably is, but I would be of no help whatsoever! :B
Hooray!

Sinder · Post by **Sinder** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:25 pm

You might be able to rig up some kind of toggle script that loads the alt-language strips instead of the English ones, but if you wanted to go farther than that, you'd have to re-write the whole site for any particular language you wanted to support.

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:41 pm

Sinder wrote:You might be able to rig up some kind of toggle script that loads the alt-language strips instead of the English ones, but if you wanted to go farther than that, you'd have to re-write the whole site for any particular language you wanted to support.

Ehhh, that's what I was afraid of. Creating a toggle script would be easy enough that even I could do it, but rewriting the site for each language is just tedious and would take up a whole lot of space. :/

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:50 pm

Thanks all for your encouragements. ^^

Ebly wrote:Good luck with translating the puns, I know they've had difficulty with the puns in the Spanish and Italian translations.

I confirm. ^^"

rickgriffin wrote:Hmm, there has got to be an easy way to put together an alt language version of the site

That would be nice.

I post a new strip translated and I bed down (that's almost 3 am in France

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Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 8:58 pm

Hehehe, bonne nuit. I'm looking forward to be able to remind myself of a lot of french through this.

valerio · Post by **valerio** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 2:36 am

Welcome aboard the translating club, Foldo. Hope to see many, many and many more strips translated into your language.

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 5:45 am

Thanks.

I'm trying, I'm trying.^^

(awakened almost at noon --")

valerio · Post by **valerio** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:20 am

*advertisement mode on* use some spare time to check my own translation mon vieux *advertisement mode off*

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:26 am

Even if I don't speak Italian ?^^"

valerio · Post by **valerio** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:04 am

i don't speak french, though some words i can comprehend. Plus, given the fact that we already know what's the original text, it makes it easier read through the translation.
OK, I'd have SOME problems with Arabic, Russian, Chinese and so on... But it'd be very fun to see the translations of that, too

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:02 pm

Okay ^^

The first strip translation has been changed ans I have translated a new strip. Good night (1 am in France).

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:17 pm

New strip translated.^^

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 1:29 pm

New translated strip. Very very difficult (and thanks to a friend). ^^"

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 7:47 pm

First arc translation completed ! ^^
Keep the femininity of Grabe secret is almost an impossible mission in French.

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Thu Dec 17, 2009 9:00 pm

Second translation arc started!

I'm going to asleep... (3 am here).

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 11:19 am

II. The Game: 2/9

valerio · Post by **valerio** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 1:49 pm

Great work as usual.
Fear LE JEU, puny mortals!

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:33 pm

Thanks.

But a friend had helped me a little, because a second regard is always useful.^^

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:45 am

Exceptionally, I translated the two strips of today :

Thats not a final version.

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Mon Dec 21, 2009 7:51 pm

II. The Game: 3/9

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Wed Dec 23, 2009 6:26 pm

Since it is the Christmas holidays, I translate the current strips while continuing the translation of olds.
I had to change the size of two text boxes, one for each day. Will you be able to find them?

(thank you to those who helped me)

XXVII. It's A Wonderful Dog's Life : 11/x

That's not a final version.

II. The Game: 4/9

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:51 pm

June 2008 completed!

II. The Game: 5, 6 and 7/9

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Thu Dec 24, 2009 5:03 pm

And the first July 2008 strip...

II. The Game: 8/9

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Fri Dec 25, 2009 5:29 am

I finished the translation as fast as I could.

XXVII. It's A Wonderful Dog's Life : 12/x

That's not a final version.

And Merry Christmas.

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:04 am

XXVII. It's A Wonderful Dog's Life : 12/12 (?)

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Fri Jan 01, 2010 7:05 pm

One off: Gregory who?

That's not a fixed version.

The Game 9/9 ans One offs # 1

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:35 pm

Great new: I downloaded Webletterer Pro on my computer (legally) and I can now type my text without having to change the font for each accent.

Cause I do not want to see a full half French and half in English (hypothetic marketing issue for the book), Pridelands has been translated as Terres fiÃ¨res.

Current strip (one-off):

This translation isn't fixed.
Translation quality : 5/5

valerio · Post by **valerio** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:22 am

luckily, Italian and English tend to mix without problems... Go PRIDELANDS!

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Sat Jan 16, 2010 1:24 pm

Sorry for my long absence, but the cord from my laptop died last Sunday. :/

So, two updates:

One-off, The Real Culprit

This translation is not fixed.
Translation quality : 4/5
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One-off, Nor Hand Nor Foot Nor Arm Nor Face

This translation is not fixed.
Translation quality : 4/5

Frank · Post by **Frank** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:14 pm

Great work so far! I'm still laughing at "Mon humide salut"

And just a question, doesn't "par-ce que" require the hyphen in the middle?

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Tue Jan 19, 2010 3:58 pm

Thanks.

Frank wrote:And just a question, doesn't "par-ce que" require the hyphen in the middle?

No, "because" is really translated by "parce que" in French.

Frank · Post by **Frank** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:18 pm

I re-read it more slowly and I might have found some translation errors:

Foldo wrote:Qu'il Pleuve !

The original "Let there be rain" is lampooned from the bible's "Let there be light." In French, this would be "Que la lumiÃ¨re soit", so maybe it should be translated "Que la pluie soit". Currently, it translates back as "let it rain" (but not yet sounding like a lampoon of "Let it snow").
Of course, you might be referencing something else here. The Spanish version of "It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring" goes "Â¡Que llueva! Â¡Que llueva! Â¡La vieja estÃ¡ en la cueva!" (literally, "Let it rain! Let it rain! The old lady is in the cave!") If French has a similar song, this might just work as it is.

Foldo wrote:Qui a dit qu'il ne jouait pas au jeu ?!

I was wondering, wouldn't Rex know that Grape is a girl? (Of course, using "elle" would ruin the joke at the end of the arc, maybe if we went for something neutral? Such as "Qui a dit Ã§a ?! Qui ne jouait pas au jeu ?!"

Foldo wrote:HÃ©, Bino. Qu'est-ce que nous Ã©tions supposÃ©s faire dans ce jeu ?

The original implies Fox has a slightly better memory: "What were we not supposed to do in that game?"

Foldo wrote:Tu n'avais pas creusÃ© aussi pronfondÃ©ment lorsque nous avions discutÃ© du chapitre du lancier

The original has "spearbearers", in plural. This leaves the possibility that the "hundred lions in tribal gear" are the ones carrying spears.
The other possible objection is that "lancier" implies they know how to use the spear â€“spearbearers only implies they are carrying the spears, possibly as squiresâ€“ but I can't think of anything better ("porte-lances" sounds kind of silly), so let's just leave it at that.

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:50 pm

Some of those seem a bit nit-picky to me, Frank.
It's also possible that the perfect, direct translation would be considered a strange thing to say for someone who spoke the language as their first.

But anyway, I've forgotten all my French vocab so I can't really offer any help. It's all up to our resident French national, Foldo! :D

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 7:38 pm

Frank wrote:I re-read it more slowly and I might have found some translation errors.

Thanks Frank. That's very useful for me.

Well, here there are the corrected strips:
- Mission nettoyage;
- Tu ne peux pas gagner;
- Tout le monde gagne;
- Ce qu'ils veulent que tu penses, blablabla....

And here some new strips (translations not fixed):
One-off, The Great Outdoor

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Translation quality: 4/5
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One-off, A Real Buzz

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Translation quality: 4/5
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Cat Tail (1/9), Misunderstood artist

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Translation quality: 4/5

Ebly · Post by **Ebly** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 8:03 pm

Oh shoot, the first cat tail comic made me laugh harder in French than it did in English.

Foldo · Post by **Foldo** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 9:07 pm

Update. Translations of July (2008) are finished! Now I start the August translations! :D

This translations are not fixed.

Cat Tail (2/9), Ostracize Doesn't Mean To Turn Into An Ostrich

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Translation quality: 4/5
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Cat Tail (3/9), A Cat Isn't Fine Either

Translation quality: 4/5
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Cat Tail (4/9), Pushing The PG Rating IN YOUR MIND

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Translation quality: 4/5
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Cat Tail (5/9), Hey Dude

Translation quality: 4/5
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Cat Tail (6/9), Anise Is Like Catnip But For Dogs

Translation quality: 4/5