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What the heck is Asuka saying in German in episode 22?

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Postby V » Wed May 16, 2007 10:56 pm

I tried searching for this, but I've heard that what Asuka is saying in episode 22 on the phone to her stepmother (in the English dub as Tiffany Grant can actually handle German) is supposed to be an in-joke or something. What is the translation of what Asuka is saying in German?
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Postby Opteron-O3 » Wed May 16, 2007 11:14 pm

Oh boy, now you got me wondering too...

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Postby Operation Yashima » Thu May 17, 2007 4:56 am

I've got a filtered net...can someone ctrl+c ctrl+v it here?

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Postby DatDude » Thu May 17, 2007 6:02 am

Louis wrote:there is only one word in the first mp3 that i can't make out. so you know, the german is very Denglisch. For example the the sentance, i am very popular with the boys... you would translaste it as; ich bin sehr popular bei den jungs and not mit den jungs. It all sounds very bablefish to me. Also, her accent is american.

ok translastion of german:

hello. hello rudie
un hun...

i am very popular with the boys

yes, yes, never

he is very <uninteligable word>, yes, yes.

well, that is very cool.

yes. Ive got to go. talk to you later. good night.
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Postby Eva Yojimbo » Thu May 17, 2007 6:03 am

EDIT: Haha, I see you beat me to it by a matter of seconds DatDude. :D
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Postby Opteron-O3 » Thu May 17, 2007 8:23 am

Very nice
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Postby V » Thu May 17, 2007 9:03 am

well is that a translation of the Japanese versions's "Gelman" or German Engrish whatever you call it, or is it of Tiffany Grant's German version?
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Postby Big Panda » Thu May 17, 2007 12:11 pm

DatDude wrote:
i am very popular with the boys

yes, yes, never

he is very <uninteligable word> , yes, yes.


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Postby chiefen » Thu May 17, 2007 1:42 pm

I've got episodes with the german stuff translated. I'll write it down when I'm at that computer, but I don't know how accurate the translation is. :P
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Postby Mr. Tines » Thu May 17, 2007 2:07 pm

From here

http://www.animenation.net/forums/showt ... +telephone

Asuka: Hello Mutter
Wir haben uns lange nichts gehört.
Danke schön...[...]
Asuka: Ach, ha, niemals
Er is ein sauber Mensch.
Ja. Ja. Wirklich?
[...]
Das ist aber toll.
Fantastisch!
[...]
Auch, wenn ich gehts keine lerne.
Ich werde jetzt ins Bett gehen.
Aufwiederhören.
Gute Nacht!


MDWigs wrote:I did a (partial) translation a while ago. I based some of it off another translation I found, becuase my ability with spoken German is a lot worse than my ability with it written down.

Format: Germans words (English translation)

Asuka : Hallo, Mutter. (Hello, mother.)
Asuka : Wir haben uns lange nichts gehoert. (We haven't talked in awhile).
Asuka : Danke schön... (Thank you very much)

Cue Shinji listening to Asuka talking to her mum: "Listening to her speaking an unfamiliar language, I feel as if Asuka were a stranger."

Asuka : Ah ha! Niemals! (Ah ha! Never!)
Asuka : Er ist ein sauber Mensch. (He's a nice guy)
Asuka : Ja. Ja. Wirklich? (Yes. Yes. Really?)
Asuka : Das ist aber toll. Fantastisch! (That is great. Fantastic!)

Cue Shinji again being all Angst(not the straight German translation either) ridden: "Mother"

Asuka : Auch, wenn ich gehts keine lerne. (Also, when I got I don't learn anything)
Asuka : Ich werde jetzt ins Bett gehen. (I might go to bed now)
Asuka : Gute Nacht. (Good night)

Also IIRC there is a bit that goes in there somewhere where Asuka asks her mother if she has to introduce "him" (i.e. Shinji, who answered the pone), and her mother asks if he is her boyfriend, to which Asuka replies, "Are you kidding?!? Of course not! He's not really sociable>". Typical Asuka . I think Miyamura understood her character very well.
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Postby Sailor Star Dust » Thu May 17, 2007 2:27 pm

The Platinum Booklets are (usually) your friend:

http://www.evamonkey.com/platinum_vol6_ ... taries.htm
In her phone conversation with her stepmother in Part A, Asuka speaks German. The contents of which are roughly as follows: "Hello? Mother? We just finished eating. What about you? You want me to introduce him? Please, of course not. He's not sociable. Uh-huh, uh-huh. Really, wow, I didn't know. That's great. I don't have anything to say, either. Talk to you again later. I'm hanging up, okay? Well, goodnight!" This dialogue was not written in the script, and was left up to Yuko Miyamura, who plays Asuka.
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Postby Operation Yashima » Thu May 17, 2007 11:18 pm

Thanks!

ummm...
Not sociable...I wonder who... :wink:

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Postby ObsessiveMathsFreak » Fri May 25, 2007 6:57 pm

Mr. Tines wrote:
MDWigs wrote:Asuka : Ah ha! Niemals! (Ah ha! Never!)
Asuka : Er ist ein sauber Mensch. (He's a nice guy)

Babelfish gives sauber as "clean". I took the conversation to be something akin to the following:

Mother: Is that the messy boy you live with? (Or words to that effect)
Asuka: No way! He's a neat freak! (Or word's to that effect)

Interesting about the additional dialogue, but I'm not sure if there was room for her to say all that. We need more sauce for that goose.
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Postby Kjesta » Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:11 am

The speaker messes up one indirect pronoun, but it's "einsamer Mensch", which means "lonely human". Hm.

And, just for your amusement, in the end, she says "Vater", "father" instead of "mother". Ha, so much 'bout that, Asuka.
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Postby Mr. Tines » Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:43 am

Kjesta wrote:it's "einsamer Mensch", which means "lonely human". Hm.


Possibly "solitary" would be a better rendering -- it's more likely that she would comment that he keeps himself to himself.
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Postby Sailor Star Dust » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:40 pm

So, is the "he's not sociable" referring to Shinji?
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Postby Mr. Tines » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:43 pm

Sailor Star Dust wrote:referring to Shinji?


I would assume so. There aren't all that many people with whom she interacts that would merit the description.
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Postby Sailor Star Dust » Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:45 pm

:lol: Too true.
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Postby Operation Yashima » Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:00 am

Sailor Star Dust wrote::lol: Too true.


Actually most characters in NGE aren't very sociable...Take Rei for example...


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