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Re: You know you've played too much Sims when..
« Reply #885 on: October 13, 2012, 10:21:11 AM »
Time is an unstable thing when you live in an alternative world, lol! I know the feeling.
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Re: You know you've played too much Sims when..
« Reply #886 on: October 13, 2012, 02:45:38 PM »
Little Red Riding Hood, is that how it's called in English? How funny, these translations must have gone through deaf people ears because it came here known as simple 'Roodkapje', or 'Red Cap', to translate it back. I like Little Red Riding Hood better.
But where did the 'riding' came from?

Haha Leto, that is what I've heard called a "Blind Idiot" translation--because apparently when you translate the saying "Out of sight, out of mind" from English to Chinese and back, it comes back as "Blind Idiot."

You know you play too much Sims when you are having daily forum binges to fix your need because your game hasn't been working for two weeks...

Aww Donatello, I'm sorry your game is not working! That's the worst!

You know you play too much Sims when you are generations ahead of where you are in your story... ::)
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Re: You know you've played too much Sims when..
« Reply #887 on: October 13, 2012, 02:55:00 PM »
I'm never very far ahead of my stories, although I do tend to try to maintain a small edge.
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Re: You know you've played too much Sims when..
« Reply #888 on: October 13, 2012, 03:12:17 PM »
I can't help it, I love playing so much, any opportunity I get I play instead of update.
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Re: You know you've played too much Sims when..
« Reply #889 on: October 13, 2012, 03:57:41 PM »
@Blind Idiot: hahahahaha! Hilarious.
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Re: You know you've played too much Sims when..
« Reply #890 on: October 14, 2012, 01:17:22 AM »
When your internet is  not responding and when you go to bring up your task manager and you hit control+shift+C insteat of control+alt+delete.
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Re: You know you've played too much Sims when..
« Reply #891 on: October 14, 2012, 03:45:01 AM »
When your internet is  not responding and when you go to bring up your task manager and you hit control+shift+C insteat of control+alt+delete.
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Hahaha, I've been there my friend.



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Re: You know you've played too much Sims when..
« Reply #892 on: October 14, 2012, 03:45:57 AM »
Haha Leto, that is what I've heard called a "Blind Idiot" translation--because apparently when you translate the saying "Out of sight, out of mind" from English to Chinese and back, it comes back as "Blind Idiot."
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Fascinating! The Dutch version would be: 'Uit het oog, uit het hart', which litterly translated means 'out of eye, out of heart.' Translate that back and forth one more time (just for the hack of it) and you will end up with: 'from the eye, from the heart', yet it has exactly the same definition as the English version does.
Yeah, it suddenly all makes sense to me now. :(

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Re: You know you've played too much Sims when..
« Reply #893 on: October 14, 2012, 08:26:47 AM »
Hahaha, I've been there my friend.

I just did it a few hours ago, like just before I posted. XD

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Re: You know you've played too much Sims when..
« Reply #894 on: October 14, 2012, 04:05:21 PM »
Fascinating! The Dutch version would be: 'Uit het oog, uit het hart', which litterly translated means 'out of eye, out of heart.' Translate that back and forth one more time (just for the hack of it) and you will end up with: 'from the eye, from the heart', yet it has exactly the same definition as the English version does.
Yeah, it suddenly all makes sense to me now. :(

You've been playing too much sims when you're afraid you're not selected since you're missing the plumbob floating above your head.

I think since English and Dutch are both Germanic languages (although English is much more mixed up with other language families) that it makes sense they would be more similar. Chinese, on the other hand--completely different.
Wait, what all makes sense to you? Like, everything?

Wow, do you really do that? I'm feeling an invisible plumbob now you brought it up hahaha.
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Re: You know you've played too much Sims when..
« Reply #895 on: October 14, 2012, 05:00:02 PM »
I juts looked up for my plumbob.. It wasn't there. Also, I have multiple times somehow expected there to be an unlimited supply of snacks like in Sims...

Asian language families are far different from Latin-Based, or the Germanics.  What in English would be: What country are you from?  Would be: Which country person are you?  (I don't know how to type with Hangul)
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Re: You know you've played too much Sims when..
« Reply #896 on: October 14, 2012, 05:31:26 PM »
That aspect makes them much easier to learn though. Different counting systems for different types of objects, that's hard though.

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Re: You know you've played too much Sims when..
« Reply #897 on: October 15, 2012, 05:21:16 PM »
Sorry, this is perhaps off topic, but reading the posts about translation and mis-translation, the "Blind Idiot" posts reminded me of something we did at school when I was about eleven.  It highlights the complexities of the English Language.  We looked up the definition for "white" then taking the first single word definition given we looked that word up.  Believe it or not after six or seven word searches we got to "black".  The same reversal of meaning can be achieved with many words.  It happens because English has so many words that are subtly different in meaning.  I think, though it is a long time ago, that we used The Greater Oxford Dictionary.

The Riding Hood refered to was a hooded travelling cloak which would have been worn by any ladies when riding a horse or in a carriage.  It was also worn by foot travellers.  It was a very versatile protective outer garment.
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Re: You know you've played too much Sims when..
« Reply #898 on: October 15, 2012, 07:10:34 PM »
A famous mis-translation of English into Chinese is a Coke-a-Cola slogun. In English: Coke-a-Cola makes you feel alive! In Chinnese: Coke-a-Cola brings you ansesters back from the dead! And yes, there were lawsuits about that! :D
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Re: You know you've played too much Sims when..
« Reply #899 on: October 17, 2012, 09:11:46 PM »
When you finally have enough points to buy the Collection Helper and nearly kill your sim by making them find all of those sweet, sweet alchemy ingredients because you now finally have hope you can supermax their alchemy skill.

 

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