Dub Love

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Aw, yea, have acquired the Frozen DVD/Blu-Ray combo pack. I will now watch Frozen and "Get A Horse" nonstop for roughly the next couple of years.

And why, yes, I am translating Frozen's "Let It Go" into my own conlangs. To, uh, test them out. Yeah, that's it.

Okay, actually, this isn't really new--I've been doing Disney dubs and writing my own lyrics to songs since I was in junior high. And because I am totally fascinated by multilingual Disney songs. I can get lost for hours watching one song in multiple languages,* and I want in on that action! But this is a first for a couple of my newer languages, and I'm having a blast. Can't decide if I prefer the crazy polysynthetic Sprite Language Mark II version or the Modern OGYAFEse fossilized triconsonantal roots** with their esoteric rhymes, but they're both terribly fun to mess with.

Yeah, I know, I'm a nerd. But hey, we nerds know what we like, and there's nothing wrong with that!


*It is an eternal bummer to me that there are no official Swahili dubs. There's a Zulu dub of The Lion King, but that's as close as we get.

**Well, not quite triconsonantal roots, but rather overdone semantic derivations with the same sort of consonant radicals and ... yeah, you stopped caring, didn't you? Having a phenomenally boring hobby is a terrible burden.

Comments

[dinogrrl.livejournal.com]

I, too, collect Disney songs in multiple languages. I once had a really nice Youtube playlist of them, until Youtube laid the smackdown on unofficial postings of songs.

[beccastareyes]

I've never tried to translate songs. I translated the opening sonnet of Romeo and Juliet into a conlang once, and I know I butchered the rhyme scheme and probably the iambic pentameter.

[badgermirlacca.livejournal.com]

Have you seen this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsO418HUnKU)?

This is a man having fun with Disney singing.