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Need help from French speaker
Aqua? Badchild? Are you out there?
I've started on a lengthy project creating the script of Gabriel Knight 3. There is a section of which I cannot make out what is being said, for three
reasons:
I'm not a native French speaker
The actress saying the lines is not a native French speaker, but an American with a different accent I'm not familiar with
The conversation happens through a door.
The character, Madeline, is talking to somebody about the two dead men she found with her tour group. They were found at the local landmark Le
Fauteuil du Diable, with their throats cut and blood drained.
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And of course I forget to paste the shortcut.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXHRaLrFIUE
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It is all Chinese to me, i hope you can forgive me that I cannot help you out.
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A very nice French speaker has helped me out. I'd never have picked THAT out.
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ha, shit, I'm late, you don't need my help anymore. Why haven't I seen this topic before ?
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You could always check to see if he's correct...  I'm not sure about the first
line (porte arrière), since I cannot place that in the game context and I cannot hear the words even now that I know them.
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Here's what she says:
"Oui, (name of the character) à l'appareil
deux hommes ont été tués pres de Renne-le-Chateau.
Non, je ne les connaissais pas.
J'ai trouvé les corps avec mon groupe de touristes.
Non, je n'ai pas pu rester, mais j'y retourne des que je peux.
Ils avaient la gorge tranchée.
Non, je n'ai vu aussi une trace de sang (her sentence isn't grammatically correct).
Je n'en ai aucune idée.
Vraiment aucune idée.
D'accord, c'est bon.
Au revoir."
translation:
"Yes, Miss ?????? speaking.
Two men were killed near Renne le Chateau.
No, I didn't know them.
I found the bodies with my tourist group.
No, I couldn't stay there, but I'll go back as soon as I can.
Their throats were slit.
No, I didn't see any traces of blood.
I have no idea.
Really no idea.
Ok, it's ok.
Goodbye."
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Buthane! That's it!
Thank you so much! I can update my script and homepage now!
If you're in for a laugh, here's another scene from the game with an American speaker in a bad attempt to talk French:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L5ghvOWWfs#t=02m40s
Fortunately it's both subtitled, and translated in the game, so I know what he says. I was so peeved off with this guy's acting performance I could
not believe who was behind it: Gregg Berger, who played Cornfed in Duckman.
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so you only got one speaker? I usually buy them in pairs. 
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I'm translating that little book now. At times I can't believe my own translation, that I think: "they can't be serious, can they?" You know, 1940's:
"if he beats you up every day, it's your fault". On the other and there's also sound advice, like "don't talk about having babies together on your
first date".
I'm now in the jealousy chapter. Apparently if you're sure that your husband's cheating on you:
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Sûre de votre fortune, pas de jérémiades ni de pleurs furtifs. Ne soyez pas alors humbe, faible et méprisable, mais violente, de la violence même de
votre amour dont il doit sentir, à cette minute, tout le prix fini.
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When it suggests counter-attacks, it speaks of changing your hair-cut and buying a new hat as reprisals.
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9 Oct:
So I've reached the Blue Land and am utterly rendered speechless: without knowing what it was about I'd never have guessed it from the text itself.
Enjoy playing truant yourself:
| Quote: | | fi de ces gens pressés qui foncent invariablement vers le but, aveugles et sourds, sans jamais de soucier ni de leur compagnon de route, ni des joies
divines de l'école buissonnière: les fruits de maraude, les fleur des talus, les ombrages et la source - et cette ivresse envahissante du plaisir
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[Edited on 9-10-13 by BBP]
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And now I've reached the femininity chapter, and from what it looks like, I should be real happy that these days are over: apparently being equal to
men results in less love.
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La Féminité est un charme dont vous ne maîtrisez pas toujours le pouvoir parce qu'il est, ou devrait être, inhérent à votre nature. Mais la nature se
trompe quelquefois, l'existence actuelle la force et la bouscule et la féminité est en péril. Craignez que trop de liberté et d'égalité avec les
hommes n'aboutisse, au point de vue sentimental, à trop de fraternité - et à moins d'amour.
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I'm not quite sure these days are really over, a lot of people still think that way, there's still a lot of work to do.
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That's true, according to the UN women worldwide do 60% of the work and get 10% of the world's salary. It's very hard to get a job when you're a woman
over 25, even here. People do see you as a time-bomb who can have kids any moment and cost the company money.
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I can't see how this Humanity will ever evolve without giving women equal pay for equal work.
If I was a woman, I'd be a lesbian for sure. I wouldn't have to deal with taht man's crap. Not to mention sex without getting pregnant.
It amazes me that only 10-12% of women are.
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Peer pressure among women is awful. Most women wear make-up and fashionable clothing because other women tell them to do so.
Nah. I'm happy I'm straight.
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Quote: Originally posted by Mij  | | If I was a woman, I'd be a lesbian for sure. I wouldn't have to deal with taht man's crap |
So you're writing
all men off including yourself. That's a massively broad brush stroke.
| Quote: | | Not to mention sex without getting pregnant. |
That's a bit of man's crap - sex without consequences.
| Quote: | | It amazes me that only 10-12% of women are. |
Largely, being gay is not a matter of choice. Yes, there are
exceptions, but mostly, people find themselves physically attracted to what they are attracted to on a level below any kind of rationality, so that's
another example of man's crap.
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I have to admit - reading Plook's thread and the way they write in there about sex with women - that shocks me. Bedroom stuff is for bedroom only and
the thought nauseates me that that one bf I had might have talked about me in similar fashion.
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I'm with you Bonny. Sharing sex stories is rather puerile and insensitive.
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And now Galoot is starting, dear g...
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