Webcomic Pepper&Carrot's Latin translation

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
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Incipiant ludi!
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Ea palmam feret cui plurimum erit plausum.
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Prima potionem ostendet Coriandrum.
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Mortem, spectatores...
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...ne timueritis amplius, beneficio meae...
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potionis qua cadavera excitantur!
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
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EVGEPAE!
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Coriandrum hac potione, immo hoc mi-ra-cu-lo, ipsi morti obsistit!
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At quaeso, plausum reservate, cives Comonae!
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Ecce enim MEA potio,
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vera illa potio quam omnes exspectabatis, illa quae vicinis vestris admirationem movebit...
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...atque invidentiam!
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Haec omnia fieri facile possunt una gutta adhibita meae...
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... potionis LAVTITIAE!
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
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O factum praeclarum! O rem mirabilem!
Haec potio totam Comonam potest divitem facere!
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Plausus vester errare non potest. Coriandrum iam superata est.
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Hoc iam videtur Shichimi difficile vincere posse!
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Nes... Nesciebam usum potionis ostendendum fore.
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Age, Shichimi, te omnes exspectant.
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Non!
Non possum; nimis periculosum est.
Ignoscite!
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Videtur, spectatores, Shichimi cedere...
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
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Da mi istud!
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... Et desine verecundiam simulare; spectaculum perdis.
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Iam omnes sciunt me certamine vicisse, quicquid potio tua facit...
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Cave!!! Potio immanes beluas facit!
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...Hem, lepide!
Mihi igitur iam agendum est?
...Mea potio saltem aliquos movebit cachinnos, nam...
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Curre, fatua!
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Certamen finitum est!
... Serva te!
 
 

Dantius

Homo Sapiens

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
in orbe lacteo
Ea palmam feret cui plurimum erit plausum.
I don't like this. "applaud-o-meter" is a very silly phrase and the Latin is completely serious and standard Latin.
 
 

Dantius

Homo Sapiens

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
in orbe lacteo
I don't know. It would take some thought.
 
 

Dantius

Homo Sapiens

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
in orbe lacteo
There is a reason I haven't been translating the comics on this thread. It does not seem like an easy task to translate such colloquial things.
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
I don't like this. "applaud-o-meter" is a very silly phrase and the Latin is completely serious and standard Latin.
The thing exists, though apparently not usually called exactly that. Is it really that humorous?

I'm a bit reluctant to use a technical Neo-Latin-Greek hybrid word like applaudometrum; I'm not sure that's the best way to go if you want to sound Latin.

If everyone still thinks there is some crucial humor in the original, maybe some other way could be found to introduce humor there in the translation, too. But off the top of my head I don't know which.
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
If we do need humor, maybe we could throw in a silly Plautian-like compound word, like... Palmam feret maxima plausiceps. LOL. Not sure about this.
 
 

Dantius

Homo Sapiens

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
in orbe lacteo
The thing exists, though apparently not usually called exactly that. Is it really that humorous?
I mean "-o-meter" applied to something like that is kind of silly to begin with, and the Wiki article you linked to suggests that the "clap-o-meter" is usually humorous anyway ("They are often regarded as a novelty or item of amusement"; "'The clap-o-meter is just for fun!'", etc.)
 

Iohannes Aurum

Technicus Auxiliarius

  • Technicus Auxiliarius

Location:
Torontum, Ontario, Canada
I mean "-o-meter" applied to something like that is kind of silly to begin with, and the Wiki article you linked to suggests that the "clap-o-meter" is usually humorous anyway ("They are often regarded as a novelty or item of amusement"; "'The clap-o-meter is just for fun!'", etc.)
The same can be said for "-rama" and "-o-vision." Funnily enough, both suffices refer to sight.

There's also "-gram."
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
I don't know what to do with the applaud-o-meter thing, but, until I or someone else possibly has an epiphany, I'll still proceed with the rest.

Here's a little square before I go:

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En...
... ut solet, cum maxime nos acturi sumus, omnes discedunt.
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Saltem scire mihi videor, Carota, quid de ista, quam vocas, potione facere possimus:
... videlicet omnia hic componere ac domum petere.
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
I don't know if this cat can speak. Even if he can't, I'm hoping quam vocas can be taken in a figurative sort of way.
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
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Eho!
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Tu grandior lauta mortua spirans avis!
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Crac!
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Vin ultimam potionem experiri?
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Non, puto?
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Ita, pittacium lege diligenter...
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...
Equidem non dubitabo te hoc perfundere, nisi actutum Comona exieris!
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Quia oppidum nostrum e periculo servavit, Piperi palmam conferimus ob potionem quae...??!!
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... Hahae!
Ita est...
... Hem...
Verum haec non potio est, sed felis meae urina quae cum proxime veterinarium adiit collecta est!
Non ostendo igitur?...

FINIS
 

Iohannes Aurum

Technicus Auxiliarius

  • Technicus Auxiliarius

Location:
Torontum, Ontario, Canada
Carrot does not speak Human.

There's even animation of this episode (and only this episode so far):

 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
Saltem scire mihi videor, Carota, quid de ista, quam vocas, potione facere possimus:
I don't know if this cat can speak. Even if he can't, I'm hoping quam vocas can be taken in a figurative sort of way.
Carrot does not speak Human.
I suppose we could say:

Saltem scire mihi videor, Carota, quid de ista tua, quae dicitur, potione facere possimus:

After all, everyone at the contest believes it to be a potion, and so could call, and maybe have called, it one.
 

Iohannes Aurum

Technicus Auxiliarius

  • Technicus Auxiliarius

Location:
Torontum, Ontario, Canada
Pacifica and others:

What do you think of the animation of Episode 6 of the webcomic?
 

Iohannes Aurum

Technicus Auxiliarius

  • Technicus Auxiliarius

Location:
Torontum, Ontario, Canada
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