Anyone thought of translating Latibaer?

[Glanni's Girl]

Anyone thought of translating Latibaer?

It should be coming this month.

Fabulous :)

[LazyPooky]

Anyone thought of translating Latibaer?

Well since all the other icelandic translators quit their job after translating a fraction of the play, or suddenly disappear and cut off all communication for reasons I do not know, I have not much trust in comments like this.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3ibIyUaBwY

[merlin55]

Anyone thought of translating Latibaer?

I better see by the time LTs 3rd season airs...the stageplays full translated on youtube f or the masses..and those darned icelandic books scanlated and translated. viva la mexico

I want this damn franchise back to its popularity height of the mid 2000's like it was

[melissaIvory]

Anyone thought of translating Latibaer?

Well since all the other icelandic translators quit their job after translating a fraction of the play, or suddenly disappear and cut off all communication for reasons I do not know, I have not much trust in comments like this.

Any chance of getting in contact with this person even though the account is down? It would be very, very, very awesome if they are working on or still willing to translate the plays, and possibly more of the soundtrack to Glanni Glæupr.

[LazyPooky]

Anyone thought of translating Latibaer?

Any chance of getting in contact with this person even though the account is down? It would be very, very, very awesome if they are working on or still willing to translate the plays, and possibly more of the soundtrack to Glanni Glæupr.

I tried to contact this person but he has a pm restriction on his youtube so only contacts can message him. He doesn't accept contacts so there is no way of sending him a message. Too bad.

I'm not surprised though, this has happened a lot of times before.

[Prisoner416]

Anyone thought of translating Latibaer?

Honestly, I prefer Glanni Glæpur í Latabæ to the TV show. I love the Pixel design in that version... anyway, someone did the first 8 or 9 minutes of it and then disappeared from Youtube. http://youtu.be/c_q5DhKRs2Y

Also, no idea where this is from, but the original puppet designs for the show were a bit more odd. Sportacus would have been a puppet version of his second play version, Pixel matches the look I prefer, and a few other characters appear that didn't make the cut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG0mr...share&index=16

[StingX]

Anyone thought of translating Latibaer?

Honestly, I prefer Glanni Glæpur í Latabæ to the TV show.

I know what you mean. Everything was quite charming.

[LazyPooky]

Anyone thought of translating Latibaer?

Reminds me to contact some people again. Who knows some good will happen finally.

[melissaIvory]

Anyone thought of translating Latibaer?

Honestly, if I didn't have the difficulties with learning languages (or having my brain literally lock away the others I had learned and was learning) translating this would be one of my motivations to learning Icelandic. But all attempts at trying to learn have failed.

Good luck with the search for a translator. If the only way to get it done, however, if payment for their services, I'd be happy to pitch in some money. (Since translators do get paid for these things.)

[StingX]

Anyone thought of translating Latibaer?

The most difficult part is the transcription, honestly. Even if we could get a native speaker to make a little document with essentially the script, Google translate combined with some logic, assumption, and clever manipulation could do a well enough job to translate I think. I would be willing to spend time on making that happen. How much would we have to pay for someone to do that? What if we set up a donation which would then be used to pay an Icelander to help us? Could that happen?

[StingX]

Anyone thought of translating Latibaer?

I have sent a few emails to some professional translating websites to see what it might cost to get ~2:45:00 of spoken Icelandic translated in to English. I'll see if this is even close to reasonable.

[LazyPooky]

Anyone thought of translating Latibaer?

I guess that's the best way. I contacted dozens of icelandics through the years but it never got that far translating the whole play. I never offered them any money, maybe that was the problem.

[Glanni's Girl]

Anyone thought of translating Latibaer?

If it's not a ridiculous price then I'd be happy to help. I think everyone interested should put forward some money, I don't like the idea of being one of only 2 or 3 people that has to pay and the rest get to see it for free, 6 or 7 people would be a good number, or at least all the regulars.
Or maybe an email could be sent to all members like when the forum was moved, maybe some lurkers would be interested.

[StingX]

Anyone thought of translating Latibaer?

Yeah, no. The price for a professional service is beyond doable for our community. A transcription would cost around 680 EUR, and a translation would cost around 2500 EUR. So unless there is a super rich lurker that is feeling generous, we are going to have to look to other means. How much could it cost to bribe an everyday Icelander to do the same thing? I'll see what I can find regarding that too.

[Glanni's Girl]

Anyone thought of translating Latibaer?

Wow, translators have serious earning power.